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Updated: June 20, 2025

Alan Seeger whose heroic death glorified his youth was born at New York on the twenty-second of June, 1888. He studied at Harvard; then lived in Paris, and no one has ever loved Paris more than he. He enlisted in the Foreign Legion of France at the outbreak of the war in 1914, and fell on the fourth of July, 1916. His letters show his mind and heart clearly.

William Lyon Phelps - The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century

His best single production is the Cook prize poem, The Hemp. I Have a Rendezvous with Death The remarkably impressive and beautiful poem by Alan Seeger which bears the above title naturally attracted universal attention. Hastening up, they perceived that his face wore an expression telling that he had at last found the place for which he had struggled.

William Lyon Phelps - The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century

We know the significance of the names of Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, Elroy Flecker on the other side of the sea, to the hope of England. And on this side of the sea the names of Joyce Kilmer, Alan Seeger and Victor Chapman have been called out to us for the poetic spell they cast upon America. All of them in their manful, poetic way.

Marsden Hartley - Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets

Three years ago he used to sit moping by the windmill because he didn't see how a Nebraska farmer boy had any "call," or, indeed, any way, to throw himself into the struggle in France. He used enviously to read about Alan Seeger and those fortunate American boys who had a right to fight for a civilization they knew.

Willa Sibert Cather - One of Ours

There was Byron, who left all his lady-loves, to fight against the Turk, And David, the singing king of the Jews, who was born with a sword in his hand. It was only yesterday, indeed, that Rupert Brooke, Francis Ledwidge, Alan Seeger and Joyce Kilmer made the memory of the soldier poet lasting.

Elizabeth Atkins - The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years

One of these, named Alan Seeger, who wrote the fine poem "I have a Rendezvous with Death," died in battle on our Independence Day. In it he spoke further of the same leader

Edmund Lester Pearson - Theodore Roosevelt

Friend of mine, Lon Seeger, of Seeger, Seeger & Hall, the carpet people in Hackensack, had twenty-five thousand dollars' worth of mats spoiled on him last week by using home dyes."

Henry Beston - A Volunteer Poilu