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Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet and writer, who was associated with the modernist school of poetry. MacLeish studied English at Yale University and law at Harvard University .
By Part Four of The Happy Marriage, the protagonist’s recognition of marital reality has found its poetic voice, what Grover Smith called in Archibald MacLeish “conscious symbolism; witty, almost metaphysical strategies of argument; compressed and intense implications.”
The Archibald MacLeish Collection consists of writings, correspondence, a scrapbook, and a handful of personal papers documenting aspects of the literary career of the Pulitizer Prize winning poet and dramatist. The papers span the dates 1914-82.
In this edition, host Bill Moyers interviews eighty-three-year-old poet and public servant Archibald MacLeish at his home in Conway, Mass. MacLeish says that on the Bicentennial Americans should be grateful for the opportunity of self-government.
Archibald MacLeish - Born in 1892, Archibald MacLeish was a poet, critic, and playwright who fought in World War I. MacLeish was awarded the Pulitzer Prize three times, and he served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1946 to 1949.
Interviewed by Benjamin DeMott. Issue 58, Summer 1974. Archibald MacLeish, ca. 1944. Archibald MacLeish winters in Antigua, but the bearable portion of the year finds him at Uphill Farm, a country place in Conway, Massachusetts, bought in the twenties on the MacLeishes’ return from Europe.
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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 -- twice for poetry, in 1953 and 1933, and once in drama -- as well as the National Book Award for poetry in 1953..
