"The Irresponsibles"
Speech
By: Archibald MacLeish
Date: 1940
Source: MacLeish, Archibald. The Irresponsibles: A Declaration. New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1940, 24–34.
About the Author: Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982), a poet, playwright, and public intellectual, was born in Illinois and educated at Yale University and Harvard Law School. MacLeish was a distinguished poet, an influential journalist, Librarian of Congress during the Roosevelt administration, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway playwright, and a professor of poetry at Harvard.
Introduction
Archibald MacLeish belonged to the generation of modernist poets that included his fellow Americans Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Both Pound and Eliot rejected large aspects of the American way of life and moved to Europe. MacLeish, however, was always able to combine a modernist approach to literature with a clear...
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