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.
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) Dream and Action (1934) 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