Archibald MacLeish

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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. He attended the Hotchkiss School from 1907 to 1911 before entering Yale University, where he majored in English, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and was selected for the Skull and Bones society. He then enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. In 1916, he married Ada Hitchcock. His studies were interrupted by World War I, in which he served first as an ambulance driver and later as a captain of artillery. He graduated from law school in 1919, taught law for a semester for the government department at Harvard, then worked briefly as an editor for The New Republic. He next spent three years practicing law. Expatriatism In 1923 MacLeish left his law firm and moved with his wife to Paris, France, where they joined the community of literary expatriates that included such members as Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. They also became part of the famed coterie of Riviera hosts Gerald and Sarah Murphy, which included Hemingway, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Do

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Ezra Pound, Malcolm Cowley, Archibald MacLeish & William Carlos Williams Read Their Poems

Archibald MacLeish Reads His Poetry

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The Spoken Arts Treasury Volume 1

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Caedmon Poetry Collection - A Century Of Poets Reading Their Work (Disc 1)

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Poem of The Day

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The Caedmon Poetry Collection

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Poems for Prelims

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A Century of Poets Reading Their Work

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Caedmon Poetry Collection - A Century Of Poets Reading Their Work [Disc 1]

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American Poets Collection By The British Library [Disc 2]

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The Spoken Arts Treasury [Disc 3]

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