Macleish, Archibald

Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) was an American poet. Kaiser is a professor of comparative literature at Harvard.

MacLeish (1892-1982) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, playwright, teacher, librarian of Congress, and public official. He was also Boylston professor at Harvard (1949-1962).

American poet and public official.

Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) was an American poet and a 1919 graduate of Harvard Law School.

American poet and playwright.

MacLeish (1892-1982) was a Pulitizer Prize winning American poet, playwright, teacher, Librarian of Congress, and public official. He was also Boylston professor at Harvard.

The American Friends of Spanish Democracy (originally called Friends of Spanish Democracy) was founded in New York City in 1936 by a group of clergymen and intellectuals under the leadership of Roger Baldwin, a member of the executive committee, and Bishop Robert L. Paddock, the chairman. John Dewey was named vice-chairman but his role appears to have been largely honorific. The objective of the organization was to arouse support for the Loyalist government during the Spanish Civil War. By organizing public appeals, petitions and letters of protest and by disseminating information on the situation in Spain, it hoped to counteract the effects of fascist propaganda and bring pressure on the U.S. President and Congress to end the arms embargo against Spain. It also raised funds for medical aid and refugee relief which were distributed by the North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy. By decision of its executive committee the organization was dissolved in 1939.

Two letters written by Archibald MacLeish to publisher William Ewert regarding Lawrence Thompson's biography of Robert Frost. In the letter of October 10th, MacLeish also mentions the opening of one of his plays in New York City.

Archibald MacLeish was an American essayist, literary critic, playwright, screenwriter, and poet.

Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982), poet, playwright, and government official, won Pulitzer Prizes in 1932, 1952, and 1959 for Conquistador, Collected Poems, 1917-1952, and J. B. He was editor of Fortune magazine in the 1930s, served as Librarian of Congress, 1939-44 and Assistant Secretary of State for Public and Cultural Affairs, 1944-45, and was professor at Harvard University, 1949-62.

Poet, playwright, government official, and Librarian of Congress.

Archibald MacLeish, poet, playwright, and Librarian of Congress, won Pulitzer Prizes in 1932, 1952, and 1959 for Conquistador, Collected Poems, 1917-1952, and J. B. He was editor of Fortune magazine in the 1930s, served as Librarian of Congress, 1939-44 and Assistant Secretary of State for Public and Cultural Affairs, 1944-45, and was professor at Harvard University, 1949-62.

American poet.

A biographical sketch of Archibald MacLeish can be found in the finding aid for the Archibald MacLeish Collection YCAL MSS 38.

Poet, playwright, government official, and Librarian of Congress; d. 1982.

American poet and librarian.

Archibald MacLeish was born in Glencoe, Illinois on May 7, 1892 to Martha Hillard and Andrew MacLeish, a dry goods merchant. After graduating from Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut he entered Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, in 1911. He married Ada Hitchcock in 1916 and served in the United States Army from 1917-1919. He received his L.L.B. from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts and practiced law with Choate, Hall and Steward, Boston, Massachusetts, from 1920 -1923. After living in Paris, France from 1923-1928, he purchased Uphill Farm in Conway, Massachusetts. From 1929-1938, he was the editor of FORTUNE Magazine. MacLeish then held a number of federal appointments, including: Librarian of Congress, 1939-1944; Director, Office of Facts and Figures, War Department, 1941-1942; Assistant Director, Office of War Information, War Department, 1942-1943; Assistant Secretary of State for Cultural Affairs, 1944-1945. He served as Chairman of the American Delegation at the London conference of UNESCO in November of 1945. the primary purpose of which was to draft the constitution for UNESCO. From 1946-1948 he served as a member of the Executive Committee of the United States National Commission for UNESCO. In 1946, he was appointed Chairman of the American Delegation to the First General Conference of UNESCO in Paris, France and was elected the first American member of the Executive Board of UNESCO. Leaving government service, MacLeish became the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1949-1962; the President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1953-1956; and Simpson Lecturer at Amherst College, 1963-1967. He died in Boston, Massachusetts on April 20, 1982.

MacLeish was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard.

Archibald MacLeish "(7 May 1892-20 Apr. 1982), poet and playwright, was born in Glencoe, Illinois, the son of Andrew MacLeish, a prosperous dry-goods merchant, and Martha Hillard MacLeish, a college professor ... Once considered a major modernist poet of the generation that followed Pound and Eliot, MacLeish remains notable as one of those who influenced the development of modern poetry. With his sensitivity to technique and his lyrical gift, he expressed common existential anxieties of the time."-- "MacLeish, Archibald." American National Biography Online. http://www.anb.org/ (Retrieved January 29, 2009).

Archibald MacLeish was a lawyer, statesman, and author, best known for his poetry. Educated in law at Yale and Harvard, he saw action in World War I and practiced law before deciding to concentrate on poetry. A distinguished poetry career led to five years as the Librarian of Congress, and tenure as assistant Secretary of State; he later chaired the first UNESCO conference in Paris, and had a long career as Harvard Professor of Rhetoric. He wrote poetry, drama, criticism, and social commentary, and won three Pulitzer Prizes.

Poet, Librarian of Congress.

Archibald MacLeish was Librarian of Congress from 1939-1944.

Biographical Note

Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) was a Pulitzer Prize winning poet and author, awarded the prize for his Conquistador (1933), Collected Poems (1917-52), and J. B. (1958). In 1939, President Roosevelt nominated MacLeish Librarian of Congress and, in 1944, Assistant Secretary of State for Cultural Affairs. He resigned this post in 1945 and in 1946, served as assistant head of the U.S. delegation to UNESCO.

H. (Henry) Tatnall Brown (1900-?) authored several works on American journalist, poet, and author Christopher Morley.

Archibald MacLeish, poet, playwright, and government official, was born on May 7, 1892, in Glencoe, Illinois. He graduated from Yale in 1915, entered Harvard Law School, and married Ada Hitchcock in 1916. After the United States entered World War I, he enlisted as a private in the army, served in the artillery in France, and was discharged with the rank of captain. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1919 and the next year joined the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall, and Stewart. In 1923 the MacLeish family moved to Paris, where they remained for five years. After returning to the United States, he travelled to Mexico to follow the route of Cortez's army in preparation for writing Conquistador .

During the 1930s MacLeish was an editor of Fortune magazine. He served as Librarian of Congress, 1939-44, Assistant Secretary of State for Public and Cultural Affairs, 1944-45, and Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry at Harvard University, 1949-62. MacLeish's poetry and dramatic writings earned him Pulitizer Prizes in 1932, 1952, and 1959, the Bollingen Prize and the National Book Award for poetry in 1953, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977, and the National Medal for Literature in 1978. Archibald MacLeish died in Boston on April 20, 1982.

His major works of poetry include Tower of Ivory (1917), The Pot of Earth (1925), The Hamlet of A. MacLeish (1928), New Found Land (1930), Conquistador (1932), America Was Promises (1939), Collected Poems, 1917-1952 (1952), and Songs for Eve (1954). MacLeish also wrote several plays, some of the most important being Panic (1935), The Fall of the City (1937), Air Raid (1938), J.B. (1958), Herakles (1967), and Scratch (1971). Counted among his works of prose are A Time to Speak (1941), The American Story (1944), Poetry and Experience, (1960), and A Continuing Journey (1968).