Seeger was educated at Harvard College where he often contributed verse to the now defunct Harvard Monthly. After graduating in 1910, Seeger spent a couple of years leading a bohemian existence in Greenwich Village, before going to France in 1912. Continuing his hedonistic lifestyle, Seeger finally attempted, although unsuccessfully, to seek a publisher for his poetry and went to London in 1914. Returning to Paris, he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion at the outbreak of World War I. Seeger took part in action at Champagne in October, 1914 and was subsequently wounded in February, 1915. He was invalided due to bronchitis in March, 1916 and spent time recuperating at Biarritz, before returning to the Somme front in June, 1916. During an attack on Belloy-en-Santerre the following month, Seeger was fatally wounded. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Medaille Militaire for bravery. His Poems was published in 1917, a year after his death, and contained the now world famous Rendezvous. |
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