SOURCE: Jarrell, Randall. Review of The Fall of the City, by Archibald MacLeish. Sewanee Review 51, no. 2 (April-June 1943): 267-80.
In the following essay, Jarrell critiques MacLeish's political/allegorical radio play The Fall of the City, finding it riddled with inconsistencies and calling it a “melodramatic oversimplification.”
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