SOURCE: Ellis, Helen E. “MacLeish and the Nature of Woman.” In The Proceedings of the Archibald MacLeish Symposium, May 7-8 1982, edited by Bernard A. Drabeck, Helen E. Ellis, and Seymour Rudin, pp. 88-95. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1988.
In the following essay, originally presented as a lecture in 1982, Ellis discusses MacLeish's poetic rendering of the nature of women as closer to the “truly true” than the nature of man.
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