MacLeish, Archibald (Vol. 3) - MacLeish, Archibald 1892–
MacLeish, Archibald 1892–
MacLeish, a much-honored American poet, has been awarded three Pulitzer Prizes. A lyric poet with an epic imagination, MacLeish's themes are large in scope. His verse drama, J.B., was both a Broadway play and a best-seller. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 9-12, rev. ed.)
Many persons are inclined to look upon Mr. MacLeish as the Joseph Addison of the New Deal. Such an attitude focuses attention on one small phase of his work, and that the least important from the point of view of his stature as a poet.
It is true that his most insistent subject is political, but he is not political in the party sense of the word, but in its larger connotation of the problem of man's relation to society. Other subjects, however, are equally important from the point of view of his survival as a poet. These are the subjects that concern every poet at some stage of his poetic life: autobiographic reminiscences, love,...
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