Archibald MacLeish
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Archibald MacLeish was an American poet and author who lived from 1892 to 1982. His literary output included works such as "Presentation to William Faulkner of the Howells Medal," "Post-war writers and pre-war readers," and "This music crept by me upon the waters." He was recognized in the collections of the American Academy Arts Sciences and the Pulitzer Prize.
MacLeish’s writings have been categorized under spoken word and poetry. Among his notable quotes is the statement, "A poem should not meanBut be." He also wrote, "What is more important in a library than anything else — is the fact that it exists."
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1892
- Died
- 1982
- Works
- 299
Top works
- Presentation to William Faulkner of the Howells Medal
- Post-war writers and pre-war readers
- Address to be given by Archibald MacLeish before luncheon of American Society of Newspaper Editors in New York City, April 17, 1942
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
- This music crept by me upon the waters
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 369
- Total plays
- 2,095
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Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work. Early years MacLeish was born in Glencoe, Illinois. His father, Andrew MacLeish, worked as a dry goods merchant. His mother, Martha Hillard, was a college professor and had served as president of Rockford College. He grew up on an estate bordering Lake Michigan. <a href="https://www.l
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,397x
- The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package*
· 2022 · cited 4,934x
- The heat of shortening and the dynamic constants of muscle
· 1938 · cited 3,510x
- Nuclear Constitution and the Interpretation of Fission Phenomena
· 1953 · cited 2,068x
- Effect of Vasodilator Therapy on Mortality in Chronic Congestive Heart Failure
· 1986 · cited 1,901x
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Quotes
- “A poem should not meanBut be.”
- “Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world. And their manners were their own business. And so were their politics. And so, but ten times so, were their souls.”
- “The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.”
- “It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.”
- “What is more important in a library than anything else — is the fact that it exists.”
- “We are as great as our belief in human liberty — no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.”
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Key facts
- President
- Franklin D. Roosevelt , Harry S. Truman
- Preceded by
- Position established
- Succeeded by
- William Benton
- Born
- ( 1892-05-07 ) May 7, 1892, Glencoe, Illinois , U.S.
- Died
- April 20, 1982 (1982-04-20) (aged 89), Boston , Massachusetts , U.S.
- Relatives
- Kenneth MacLeish (brother)
- Education
- Yale University ( BA ), Harvard University ( LLB )
- Genre
- Poetry, drama, essays
- Notable works
- Panic (1935), J.B. (1958)
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Encyclopedic overview
Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet and writer, who was associated with the modernist school of poetry. MacLeish studied English at Yale University and law at Harvard University. He enlisted in and saw action during the First World War and lived in Paris in the 1920s. On returning to the United States, he contributed to Henry Luce's magazine Fortune from 1929 to 1938. For five years, MacLeish was the ninth Librarian of Congress, a post he accepted at the urging of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. From 1949 to 1962, he was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard. He was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.
Early years
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