Seeger
ALAN, an American poet, born in New York in 1888. He was educated at Harvard University and began writing while still an undergraduate student, although little of his work became known then. He went to Paris in 1912.
At the outbreak of the World War he enlisted in the Foreign Legion. He tinued to write while serving in the French army and some of his poems, sent to friends in America, gradually found their way into print. The best known of his poems, perhaps, was "I Have a Rendezvous with Death." He died during an engagement at Belloi-en-Santerre, on July 3, 1916. The comparatively small number of his writings which he left were published after his death in two volumes, "Poems" (1917), and "Letters and Diary" (1917).