Archibald MacLeish

Archibald MacLeish (født 7. mai 1892 i Glencoe i USA, død 20. april 1982 i Boston i USA) var en amerikansk poet og skribent innen den modernistiske lyrikkretningen. Han studerte engelsk ved Yale University og senere juss ved Harvard University. Han meldte seg til tjeneste og deltok i kamphandlinger under  første verdenskrig og bode i Paris i 1920-årene. Da han kom tilbake til USA, bidro han som skribent i Henry Luces magasin Fortune fra 1929 til 1938. I fem år var MacLeish også sjefsbibliotekar for Library of Congress, en stilling han takket ja til etter påtrykk fra president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Fra 1949 til 1962, var han professor innen retorikk og talekunst ved Harvard University. Han mottok også tre Pulitzerpriser for sine arbeider.

Arbeider

Poesisamlinger

Class Poem (1915)
Songs for a Summer's Day (1915)
Tower of Ivory (1917)
The Happy Marriage (1924)
The Pot of Earth (1925)
Nobodaddy (1926)
The Hamlet of A. Macleish (1928)
Streets in the Moon (1928)
Einstein (1929)
New Found Land (1930)
Conquistador (1932)
Elpenor (1933)
Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City (1933)
Poems, 1924–1933 (1935)
Public Speech (1936)
The Land of the Free (1938)
Actfive and Other Poems (1948)
Collected Poems (1952)
Songs for Eve (1954)
The Collected Poems of Archibald MacLeish (1962)
The Wild Old Wicked Man and Other Poems (1968)
The Human Season, Selected Poems 1926–1972 (1972)
New and Collected Poems, 1917–1976 (1976)

Prosa

Jews in America (1936)
America Was Promises (1939)
The Irresponsibles: A Declaration (1940)
The American Cause (1941)
A Time to Speak (1941)
American Opinion and the War: the Rede Lecture (1942)
A Time to Act: Selected Addresses (1943)
Freedom Is the Right to Choose (1951)
Art Education and the Creative Process (1954)
Poetry and Experience (1961)
The Dialogues of Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren (1964)
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965)
A Continuing Journey (1968)
Champion of a Cause: Essays and Addresses on Librarianship (1971)
Poetry and Opinion: the Pisan Cantos of Ezra Pound (1974)
Riders on the Earth: Essays & Recollections (1978)
Letters of Archibald MacLeish, 1907–1982 (1983)

Drama

Union Pacific (ballet) (1934)
Panic (1935)
The Fall of the City (1937)
Air Raid (1938)
Colloquy for the States (1943)
The American Story: Ten Broadcasts (1944)
The Trojan Horse (1952)
This Music Crept By Me on the Waters (1953)
J.B. (1958)
Three Short Plays: The Secret of Freedom. Air Raid. The Fall of the City. (1961)
An Evening's Journey to Conway (1967)
Herakles (1967)
Scratch (1971)
The Great American Fourth of July Parade (1975)
Six Plays (1980)

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Kilder

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Dramatikere fra USA
Pulitzer-vinnere innen drama