MacLeish, Archibald
MacLeish, Archibald( 1892–1982),born in Illinois, graduated from Yale (1915), served in World War I, and received his LL.B. from Harvard (1919), after which he practiced law. His poetic career falls into three principal divisions. The first, signalized by his expatriation in Europe (1923–28) and in part the result of his reactions to the war, extends from Tower of Ivory (1917) to The Hamlet of A. MacLeish (1928). These works, along with The Happy Marriage (1924), The Pot of Earth (1925), Streets in the Moon (1926), and Nobodaddy (1926), a verse drama, show the influence of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, and are subjective in content. MacLeish's work at this time was a voice of the hopeless individual in a chaotic postwar world.
Upon his return to the Depression-ridden U.S., he showed, from the publication of New Found Land (1930) to Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City (1933), a new attitude, in which...
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