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    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...
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  • businessman. MacLeish was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to Agnes (Lindsay) and Archibald MacLeish. He received his education at the Glasgow Normal Academy, Hardy's...
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  • Archibald MacLeish, and first published in 1926, was written as a spin on Horace's classic treatise, which can be translated to “art of poetry.” MacLeish's...
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    Lieutenant in mid-August of the same year. MacLeish was the brother of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Archibald MacLeish, and like him, attended Yale College....
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  • MacLeish is a Scottish surname and may refer to: Andrew MacLeish (1838–1928), Scottish-American merchant; father of Archibald MacLeish Archibald MacLeish...
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  • a 1958 play written in free verse by American playwright and poet Archibald MacLeish, and is a modern-day retelling of the story of the biblical figure...
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    include both nonfiction and fiction. MacLeish was the nephew of poet Archibald MacLeish. Attorney Eric MacLeish is his son. He died in Washington, DC...
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  • art consultant Archibald Motley (1891–1981), American visual artist Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982), American modernist writer Archibald Roosevelt (1894–1979)...
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  • Agronsky, Henry R. Luce, Clarence Pickett, and Harry Emerson Fosdick. Archibald MacLeish composed a memorial poem, published in the New York Herald Tribune...
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    of the work so Diego was able to later recreate it. American poet Archibald MacLeish wrote six "irony-laden" poems about the mural. The New Yorker magazine...
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    Honorary Membership in 1940. Herbert Putnam was succeeded in 1939 by Archibald MacLeish, who served from 1939 until 1944. "(George) Herbert Putnam." Dictionary...
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    filming The Wild Angels. Poet, writer, and Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish was her great-great-uncle. After her parents divorced when she was...
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  • the spring of 1970, Dylan became involved with a new play by poet Archibald MacLeish. A musical version of The Devil and Daniel Webster was titled Scratch...
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    Congress, Archibald MacLeish, as head of the Legislative Reference Service and later Chief Assistant Librarian of Congress. After MacLeish resigned, president...
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    Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Fernand Léger, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Archibald MacLeish, John O'Hara, Cole Porter, Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley. Prior...
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    own father, Scottish-born businessman Andrew MacLeish. Dern's maternal granduncle was poet Archibald MacLeish. His godfather was governor and two-time presidential...
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  • Council (PLC). That year, the PLC endorsed for Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish, chairman in 1937 of the first open meeting of the Second Congress...
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    become famous, among them Anaïs Nin, Kay Boyle, Ernest Hemingway, Archibald MacLeish, Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, Hart Crane, and Robert Duncan. Born...
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  • friend, A. Poulin, Jr. His first book, Anchor Dragging, was chosen by Archibald MacLeish for BOA's New Poets of America series. His poetry also appeared in...
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  • and the commentary was written by Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, Archibald MacLeish, and Prudencio de Pareda. Erickson writes that, "The horrendous images...
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    Stephen Vincent Benét. Benet was judge from 1933 to 1942, followed by Archibald MacLeish from 1944 to 1946. Margaret Walker's For My People was the last volume...
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  • JB or J.B. may refer to: J.B. (play), a 1958 play by Archibald MacLeish in verse, based on the Book of Job Jerusalem Bible, a 1966 Roman Catholic Bible...
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  • and documents the Nazis stole from target countries and from Jews. Archibald MacLeish, the Librarian of Congress, announced that fellow librarians "must...
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    "I believe this would be a good year to release poets." The poet Archibald MacLeish asked him in June 1957 to write a letter on Pound's behalf. Hemingway...
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    Circe, / Unwept, unwrapped in sepulchre, since toils urged other." Archibald MacLeish wrote a poem about Elpenor published in 1933. Nobel laureate Giorgos...
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    publications. The poem became more widely known through the efforts of Archibald MacLeish, then Librarian of Congress, who included it in an exhibition of poems...
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    begged Archibald MacLeish, who was in town from his farm, to take charge.: 11  While waiting for the doctors to finish their examination, MacLeish wondered...
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    6 million troy ounces (20,206 metric tons). Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish expressed concern with the safety of the library's precious artifacts...
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  • Football Hall of Fame: 218  Edwin Arthur Burtt (1915), philosopher: 983  Archibald MacLeish (1915), poet and diplomat: 185, 187–9  Wesley Marion Oler Jr. (1916)...
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    Stephenson (1861–64) Spofford (1864–97) Young (1897–99) Putnam (1899–1939) MacLeish (1939–44) Evans (1945–53) Mumford (1954–74) Boorstin (1975–87) Billington...
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