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Biographies (5)

445 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... Read more
2,594 words, approx. 9 pages
Unlike many members of the American expatriate community in France between the World Wars, Archibald MacLeish is best known not as an alienated modernist, but as the continuator of the nineteenth-cent... Read more
4,774 words, approx. 16 pages
In a distinguished and kaleidoscopic career spanning more than six decades Archibald MacLeish, chiefly renowned as a major American poet, has also served as soldier, educator, lawyer, journalist, libr... Read more
10,505 words, approx. 36 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, ... Read more
10,867 words, approx. 37 pages
Biography Essay"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... Read more