Grace Fallow Norton, born on 29 October 1876 in Northfield, Minnesota, and deceased in 1926, belongs to that large and consequential company of American poets whose work was respected in its own moment yet gradually slipped from broad public view. Her surviving reputation rests chiefly on a small body of lyric poetry, especially the 1912 collection Little Gray Songs from St. Joseph’s, a book whose title alone suggest…
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Grace Fallow Norton
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Alan Seeger
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Alan Seeger was born in New York City on 22 June 1888, into an American family whose comfort, education, and international connections gave him unusual freedom while also placing before him the question of what a privileged young man ought to do with his life. He died on 4 July 1916, age twenty-eight, in the Battle of the Somme while serving in the French Foreign Legion. In the years between those dates he became, in…
“The war has given me a new zest for life.”
In time
Grace Fallow Norton
Alan Seeger
1876
1926
They overlapped for 29 years (1888–1916).
When Alan Seeger was born, Grace Fallow Norton was about 12.
Grace Fallow Norton was about 40 when Alan Seeger died.
On the map
About 1,618 km separate Northfield, Minnesota, USA from New York City, New York, USA. Both have ground in New York.
Grace Fallow Norton
Themes they return to
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From the biographies
Grace Fallow Norton: northfield, minnesota, little gray songs from st. joseph's, smith college, christina rossetti, elizabeth barrett browning, emily dickinson, brontë sisters. Alan Seeger: new york city, battle of the somme, french foreign legion, i have a rendezvous with death, the torture of cuauhtemoc, charles seeger sr., elsie simmons adams seeger, pete seeger.
Poems that secretly rhyme
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The world around them
While their lives overlapped
Notable events from the years they were both alive.
Grace Fallow Norton
Alan Seeger
1916
Death in Battle
Emotional landscapes
Grace Fallow Norton: Longing, Sorrow, Tenderness. Alan Seeger: Longing, Tenderness, Wonder.