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Leonard Bacon

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American poet, translator, and literary critic (1887-1954)

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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 1923.

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1943Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1941Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

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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 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.

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Lived 1887 to 1954 · aged 66
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