He was killed in action at Belloy-en-Santerre, famously cheering on his fellow soldiers in a successful charge after being hit several times himself by machine gun fire. Having moved to the Latin Quarter of Paris to continue his seemingly itinerant intellectual lifestyle, on August 24, 1914, Seeger joined the French Foreign Legion so that he could fight for the Allies in World War I (the United States did not enter the war until 1917).
Petitpas' boardinghouse (319 West 29th Street), where the presiding genius was the artist and sage John Butler Yeats, father of the poet. After graduating in 1910, he moved to Greenwich Village for two years, where he wrote poetry and enjoyed the life of a young bohemian.ĭuring that time, he attended soirées at the Mlles. At Harvard, he edited and wrote for the Harvard Monthly. Seeger entered Harvard in 1906 after attending several elite preparatory schools, including Hackley School. His brother Charles Seeger, a noted musicologist, was the father of the American folk singer, Pete Seeger. In 1900, his family moved to Mexico for two years, which influenced the imagery of some of his poetry. Born in New York, Seeger moved with his family to Staten Island at the age of one and remained there until the age of ten.
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