SOURCE: Sickels, Eleanor M. “MacLeish and the Fortunate Fall.” American Literature 35, no. 2 (May 1963): 205-17.
In the following essay, Sickels tracks MacLeish's use of the Christian theme of the Fortunate Fall in his poetry, especially in Songs for Eve and the verse play J. B.
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