The Poetry of MacLeish (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Archibald MacLeish
- First Published: 1917
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Mythology or myths, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, God, Christianity, Drama or dramatists
Critical Evaluation:
There is a wide range of achievement in the poetry of Archibald MacLeish, but there is nearly always high technical excellence and the student of technique will be greatly rewarded by discovering in MacLeish’s work the subtlety of the rhyme and assonance, the complexity of the metrics, and the variety of his forms. Although many of MacLeish’s shorter poems make pleasant reading, the longer poems are perhaps more interesting in that they reveal more fully the fabric of his thought. Among the shorter poems, one might consider “The Happy Marriage,”...
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