MacLeish, Archibald (Vol. 8) - MacLeish, Archibald 1892–
MacLeish, Archibald 1892–
An American poet, playwright, editor, and political adviser, MacLeish has been continually involved in literature, art, government, and other facets of American cultural life. Often taking the political as his subject matter, MacLeish is, as James Southworth says, "not political in the party sense of the word, but in its larger connotation of the problem of man's relation to society." The scope of MacLeish's themes also encompasses nature, love, and reminiscences. MacLeish has won three Pulitzer Prizes. (See also CLC, Vol. 3, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 9-12, rev. ed.)
Not only his journalistic but his poetic and especially his dramatic writings in the 1930's manifested the extroverted temperament which equipped MacLeish for the role of "communicator," or public spokesman. This was no new attribute: his poems of the 1920's and earlier could only have come from a man of this type, but in technique they...
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