About Leonard Bacon
Leonard Bacon (1887–1954) was a notable American poet, translator, and literary critic. Being the great-grandson of preacher Leonard Bacon, he graduated from Yale University in 1909 and subsequently taught at the University of California, Berkeley until 1923. In 1923, he began to publish his poetry in the Saturday Review of Literature under the name 'Autholycus'. He and his family spent time living in Florence, Italy from 1927 to 1932. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1941 for his satirical poems, Sunderland Capture. In 1942, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Browse all poems and texts published on Leonard Bacon
