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Leonard Bacon (1887–1954) was an American poet, translator, and literary critic. The great-grandson of preacher Leonard Bacon, he graduated from Yale University in 1909, and subsequently taught at University of California, Berkeley 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 Florence, Italy from 1927 to 1932. He won the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his satiric poems Sunderland Capture. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1942.[1]

Leonard Bacon
Born	(1887-05-26)May 26, 1887 Solvay, New York, U.S.
Died	January 1, 1954(1954-01-01) (aged 66) Peace Dale, Rhode Island, U.S.
Occupation	Poet
Nationality	American
Notable awards	Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Spouse	Martha Stringham Bacon
Children	Martha Bacon Helen H. Bacon Alice Bacon

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
• Works by Leonard Bacon at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Leonard Bacon at Internet Archive

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Leonard Bacon (1887-1954)[1] fue un poeta, crítico y escritor estadounidense.

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