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 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. (From Wikipedia) More about Leonard Bacon:
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| | Books by Leonard Bacon: Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954, ed.: Heroic Ballads of Servia, Translated Into English Verse (Boston: Sherman, French, and Company, 1913), also ed. by George Rapall Noyes (HTML at sacred-texts.com) Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954, trans.: The Lay of the Cid, also trans. by R. Selden Rose
Additional books by Leonard Bacon in the extended shelves: Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954: Animula vagula (Harper & brothers, 1926) (page images at HathiTrust) Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954: The ballad of Blonay : a chanson de Yolande ([s.n.], 1906) (page images at HathiTrust) Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954: The banquet of the poets; or, The fallen angel. (Lederer, Street & Zeus, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust) Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954: Guinea-fowl and other poultry (Harper & brothers, 1927), also by Polly Howard and Sidney Coe Howard (page images at HathiTrust) Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954: The lay of the Cid (University of California press, 1919), also by Robert Selden Rose (page images at HathiTrust) Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954: The legend of Quincibald (Harper & Brothers, 1928), also by Sidney Coe Howard (page images at HathiTrust) Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954: Oration & poem delivered at Yale university on the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the society of Phi beta kappa. (Yale university press, 1927), also by Phi Beta Kappa. Connecticut Alpha (Yale University) and Chauncey Brewster Tinker (page images at HathiTrust) Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954: Ph. D.s, male and female created He them (Harper & Brothers, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust) Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954: The scrannel pipe, a book of verse. (Privately printed, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust) Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954: The song of Roland (Yale University Press, 1914) (page images at HathiTrust) Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954: Sophia Trenton, a moral poem. (Stanford University, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust) Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954: Ulug Beg: an epic poem, comic in intention, in VII cantos (A. A. Knopf, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust) Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954: Ulug Beg; an epic poem, comic in intention, in VII cantos; being the history of the origin, progress, and explosion of a superstition. (A. A. Knopf, 1923), also by Helen Hoyt and Sidney Coe Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
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