I Have a Rendezvous with Death

About this film

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 4, 2018. Read in English by Bruce Kachuk; brianna; David Lawrence; Newgatenovelist; Greg Giordano; Ian King; Nuria; Lee Ann Howlett; Larry Bordowitz; Larry Wilson; Matthew Datcher; Nemo; DrPGould; Peter Yearsley; RajVO; Tomas Peter; boilingforest and tovarisch. This book .... contains the record of a short life, into which was crowded far more of keen experience and high aspiration—of the thrill of sense and the rapture of soul—than it is given to most men, even of high vitality, to extract from a life of twice the length. Alan Seeger had barely passed his twenty-eighth birthday, when, charging up to the German trenches on the field of Belloy-en-Santerre, his "escouade" of the Foreign Legion was caught in a deadly flurry of machine-gun fire, and he fell, with most of his comrades, ... To his friends the loss was grievous, to literature it was—we shall never know how great, but assuredly not small. (Introduction by William Archer to Poems by Alan Seeger ) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, C…

Directors & creators

Alan Seeger

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks; literature; poetry; nature; death; war; battle; spring; seasons

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