Collected Poems, 1917-1982

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985 - Poetry - 524 pages

This expanded volume of the distinguished poet's work contains 29 previously uncollected poems, some that had been published, and some found in manuscript after MacLeish's death in 1982. This is the definitive volume produced by a life that filled several careers as writer, teacher, and public servant, but was devoted above all to poetry.

 

Contents

Night Watch in the City of Boston
3
A Good Man in a Bad Time
9
Dozing on the Lawn
15
from TOWER OF IVORY 1917
39
THE POT OF Earth 1925
59
from STREETS In the Moon 1926
79
THE HAMLET OF A MACLEISH 1928
111
EINSTEIN 1929
137
ELPENOR 1933
275
from POEMS 19241933
281
from PUBLIC SPEECH 1936
301
AMERICA WAS PROMISES 1939
323
COLLOQUY FOr the States 1943
335
ACTFIVE 1948
341
from ACTFIVE AND OTHER POEMS 1948
363
LATER POEMS 19511962
387

from NEW FOUND LAND 1930
145
CONQUISTADOR 1932
169
from FRESCOES FOR MR ROCKEFELLERS CITY 1933
263
THREE PHOTOGRAPHS
450
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About the author (1985)

ARCHIBALD MACLEISH (1892-1982) attended Yale University and served in World War I. Later, he went to Harvard Law School and practiced law in Boston for a few years until he gave it up and moved to Paris with his wife and children to devote all his time to writing poetry. He returned to the United States to research the Spanish conquest of Mexico, and the result, Conquistador (1932), won him a Pulitzer Prize. From 1920-1939, he was a member of the editorial board of Fortune magazine and he served as Librarian of Congress from 1929 to 1944. MacLeish's Collected Poems (1952) won a Pulitzer Prize and his poetic drama, J.B.: A Play in Verse, based on the Book of Job, was a Broadway success in 1957 winning a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award.

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