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Archibald MacLeish : reflections / edited by Bernard A. Drabeck and Helen E. Ellis ; foreword by Richard Wilbur.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, 1986.Description: 1 online resource (291 pages) : portraitsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585163928
  • 9780585163925
  • 1122052499
  • 9781122052498
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Archibald MacLeish.DDC classification:
  • 811/.52 19
LOC classification:
  • PS3525.A27 Z465 1986eb
Other classification:
  • 18.06
  • HU 4413
  • HU 4431
Online resources:
Contents:
The Paris years -- The 1930s -- The poet in government -- The Harvard years -- The later years.
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  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
Summary: In these long interviews, conducted during the last five years of his life, a noted writer talks about his professional life as a poet, playwright, lawyer, editor of Fortune, Librarian of Congress and Harvard professor. Relatively reticent about his family, MacLeish (18921982) is outspoken about FDR, Truman ("totally himself all the time"), Joe McCarthy, George Marshall (a remarkable man of great intellectual powers) and Alger Hiss ("the most complete reactionary I ever saw in my life"), andalthough he claims that he avoided writers "like the plague"about Joyce, Hemingway and Ezra Pound ("He had the worst taste in people"). Arranged chronologically, these free-ranging memoirs reveal many hitherto undisclosed aspects of an eloquent, high-minded American. -- Publishers Weekly.Summary: During the last five years of his life MacLeish participated in this series of interviews tracing his career as poet, Librarian of Congress, statesman, and man of letters. He speaks candidly of his student years, his "expatriate period" in Paris, and his subsequent writing and teaching. The editors/interviewers have wisely asked only brief, perceptive questions, leaving the spotlight on the poet. His language is colloquial, and the range of his writing, experience, and acquaintances should prove fascinating to readers of 20th-century poetry, literature, and social history. Stephen H. Cape, Indiana Univ. Lib. -- Library Journal.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-283) and index.

The Paris years -- The 1930s -- The poet in government -- The Harvard years -- The later years.

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In these long interviews, conducted during the last five years of his life, a noted writer talks about his professional life as a poet, playwright, lawyer, editor of Fortune, Librarian of Congress and Harvard professor. Relatively reticent about his family, MacLeish (18921982) is outspoken about FDR, Truman ("totally himself all the time"), Joe McCarthy, George Marshall (a remarkable man of great intellectual powers) and Alger Hiss ("the most complete reactionary I ever saw in my life"), andalthough he claims that he avoided writers "like the plague"about Joyce, Hemingway and Ezra Pound ("He had the worst taste in people"). Arranged chronologically, these free-ranging memoirs reveal many hitherto undisclosed aspects of an eloquent, high-minded American. -- Publishers Weekly.

During the last five years of his life MacLeish participated in this series of interviews tracing his career as poet, Librarian of Congress, statesman, and man of letters. He speaks candidly of his student years, his "expatriate period" in Paris, and his subsequent writing and teaching. The editors/interviewers have wisely asked only brief, perceptive questions, leaving the spotlight on the poet. His language is colloquial, and the range of his writing, experience, and acquaintances should prove fascinating to readers of 20th-century poetry, literature, and social history. Stephen H. Cape, Indiana Univ. Lib. -- Library Journal.

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