Leonard Bacon (1887–1954) was an American

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, translator, and literary critic. The great-grandson of preacher

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, he graduated from

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in 1909, and subsequently taught at

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until his retirement in 1923. In 1923, he started publishing poetry in the ''Saturday Review of Literature'' under the pseudonym ' Autholycus'. He and his family lived in

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from 1927 to 1932. He won the 1941

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for his satiric poems ''Sunderland Capture''. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1942.

Works

* ''The Heroic Ballads of Servia'' (1913) (translated from Spanish) * ''Chanson de Roland'' (1914) (translated from French) * ''The Cid'' (1919) (translated from Spanish) * ''Sophia Trenton'' (1920) * ''Ulug beg'' (1923) * ''Ph.D.s'' (1925) * ''Animula Vagula'' (1926) * ''Guinea-fowl and other Poultry'' (1927) * ''Lost Buffalo, and other Poems'' (1930) * ''Sunderland Capture'' (1940) (winner of the Pulitzer Prize) * ''Day of Fire'' (1943)

References

External links

* Leonard Bacon Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
New York State Literary Tree: Leonard Bacon

Biographical Notes, Leonard Bacon

Hervey Allen Papers, 1831-1965, SC.1952.01, Special Collections Department, University of Pittsburgh
* * 1887 births 1954 deaths Poets from New York (state) Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Onondaga County, New York Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty Writers from Rhode Island Yale University alumni 20th-century American poets Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters {{US-poet-1880s-stub