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| Name: |
Archibald MacLeish | | Birth Date: |
May 7, 1892 | | Death Date: |
April 20, 1982 | | Place of Birth: |
Glencoe, Illinois, United States | | Place of Death: |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
poet, playwright, teacher |
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Biography of Archibald MacLeish
461 words, approx. 2 pages
 Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) was an American poet, playwright, teacher, and public official and a Pulitzer Prize winner. Archibald MacLeish was born in Glencoe, Ill. on May 7, 1892. He graduated from Yale University in 1915. After serving in World...
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Biography of Archibald MacLeish
10,972 words, approx. 37 pages
 "Ars Poetica" and Archibald MacLeish are inextricably bound for most readers of modern American poetry, but neither this poem nor "The End of the World" (both first collected in Streets in the Moon, 1928) nor MacLeish's other heavily anthologized...
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Biography of Archibald MacLeish
10,316 words, approx. 34 pages
 "Ars Poetica" and Archibald MacLeish are inextricably bound for most readers of modern American poetry, but neither this poem nor "The End of the World" (both first collected in Streets in the Moon, (1928) nor MacLeish's other heavily anthologized...



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Archibald MacLeish Quotes
360 words, approx. 1 pages
 Archibald MacLeish ( May 7 , 1892 – April 20 , 1982 ) was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress . He is associated with the modernist school of poetry. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize three times. Sourced It is not in the world of...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Archibald MacLeish Information
1,070 words, approx. 4 pages
 Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892–April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the modernist school of poetry. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize three...




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 The Washington Post
The Charmed Orbit of Archibald MacLeish
03/14/2001: 729 words, approx. 2 pages UPHILL WITH ARCHIE By William H. MacLeish Simon & Schuster. 287 pp. $25 In this era of disposable celebrity, Archibald MacLeish is a name that doesn't ring much more than a faint bell. Even many keen readers of American literature can't...
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 The Economist (US)
Archibald MacLeish: An American life.
07/11/1992: 673 words, approx. 2 pages ARCHIBALD MACLEISH: AN AMERICAN LIFE. By Scott Donaldson. Houghton Mifflin; 622 pages; $35 THIS year marks the centenary of the birth of Archibald MacLeish, one of the most unusual figures in 20th-century American letters and a man who prospered at both poetry...
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 The New York Observer
Galbraith's Rich Career: Epic in Scope, Still Timely
6/5/2005: 1,688 words, approx. 6 pages John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics, by Richard Parker. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 820 pages, $35.I've heard just about enough from the founding fathers. Over the last decade, many of the big publishing events in biography have involved appreciations and reappraisals of...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by David Barber
12,250 words, approx. 41 pages
 In the following essay, Barber probes the strong social and public component of MacLeish's poetry, charting its development particularly over the period from 1930 to 1945.
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Critical Essay by John Morton Blum
11,178 words, approx. 37 pages
 In the following essay, Blum recounts MacLeish's literary and political career, stressing the poet's liberalism and belief in democracy.
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Critical Essay by Grover Smith
10,239 words, approx. 34 pages
 In the following excerpt, Smith offers an in-depth survey of MacLeish's poetry from his earliest verse to 1968's The Wild Old Wicked Man, focusing principally on subject and theme.


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