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Biography

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
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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
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"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
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"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
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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...


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Archibald MacLeish Information
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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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Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by David Barber
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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
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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
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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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