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Leonard Bacon

レナード・ベーコン

Reinādo Bēkon

Pen Names: Autholycus（Used when publishing poetry in the Saturday Review of Literature）

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1887-05-26 （Solvay, New York）
Died
1954-01-01 （Peace Dale, Rhode Island） age 66
Nationality
American
Languages
English
Residence History
University of California, Berkeley (teaching) → Florence, Italy (1927-1932)

Career

Occupations
poet, translator, literary critic
Active Years
1913-1954
Affiliations
University of California, Berkeley
Memberships
American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Education

Yale University
Degree: BA
Period: 1905-1909
Year of Graduation: 1909
Country: United States

Awards

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
1941
Work: Sunderland Capture
Organization: Columbia University
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Sunderland Capture

1940 satiric poetry

Satiric poems that won the Pulitzer Prize.

satire

Day of Fire

1943 poetry

Poetry collection.

Lost Buffalo, and other Poems

1930 poetry

Poetry collection.

Bibliography

  • The Heroic Ballads of Servia (1913)
  • Chanson de Roland (1914)
  • The Cid (1919)
  • 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)
  • Day of Fire (1943)

Translations by Author

  • The Heroic Ballads of Servia (from Spanish)
  • Chanson de Roland (from French)
  • The Cid (from Spanish)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
satiric

Legacy

American poet known for satiric poetry, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Also translator and critic.

Archives

  • Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale

Trivia

  • Great-grandson of preacher Leonard Bacon.
  • Married to Martha Stringham, three children including Helen H. Bacon.