"We have learned the answers, all the answers: It is the questions that we...

The Independent - London;  May 10, 2007 ;     10 words ...Archibald MacLeish American poet, The Hamlet of A. McLeish (1928)

Archibald MacLeish

Archive Photos;  September 1, 1994 ;     70 words ......April 20, 1982 - American poet Archibald MacLeish, a three time Pulitzer prizewinner...Archive Photos Object Name: Archibald MacLeish Dies 162/33 American. poet. MacLeish people. art Archibald MacLeish Copyright (c) Archive Photos...

THE TRANSCENDENTAL REALISM OF AMERICAN VERSE DRAMA

The Journal of American Drama and Theatre;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......particularly the odd hybrid of modern verse or poetic drama. Described both as a revolt against realism...a people we are without poetry, without poetic feeling. And the general national characteristics...commentary subtitled "Public Indifference to Poetic Drama" (1909) baldly stated that, ...

Serving His Muse And His Country

The Washington Post;  May 3, 1992 ;     700+ words ...ARCHIBALD MACLEISH An American Life By Scott Donaldson Houghton Mifflin. 622 pp. $35 ARCHIBALD MACLEISH's greatest literary success, the...literary reputations flicker and dim, as Archibald MacLeish's surely has." My impression is that...

Interview: Bill MacLeish discusses his new book "Uphill with Archie" about...

NPR All Things Considered;  February 28, 2001 ;     1 words ...00-00-0000

The politics and poetry of advice and consent: Congress confronts the...

Presidential Studies Quarterly;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Committee, makes no mention of the event. Archibald MacLeish, one of the nominees, misstates and...could never have enough men like Archibald MacLeish in Washington. He told MacLeish he...the Department of State and give Archibald MacLeish a new job. On November 27, Roosevelt...

The Charmed Orbit of Archibald MacLeish

The Washington Post;  March 14, 2001 ;     645 words ......Schuster. 287 pp. $25 In this era of disposable celebrity, Archibald MacLeish is a name that doesn't ring much more than a faint bell...letters" was clearly invented to describe someone like Archibald MacLeish. Although not a major writer, he was to win three Pulitzer...

poetic drama

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms;      61 words ...poetic drama, the category of plays written wholly or mainly in verse. This includes most tragedies and other serious plays from the earliest...

Archibald MacLeish: An American life.

The Economist (US);  July 11, 1992 ;     627 words ...ARCHIBALD MACLEISH: AN AMERICAN LIFE. By Scott Donaldson. Houghton Mifflin; 622 pages; $35 THIS year marks the centenary of the birth of Archibald MacLeish, one of the most unusual figures in 20th-century American letters and a man who prospered...

A POET'S TRIUMPHANT LIFE, SEEN THROUGH A SON'S EYES

The Boston Globe;  April 15, 2001 ;     700+ words ......actually happened. In this sensitively observed account, poet Archibald MacLeish's son William confesses, "I wouldn't fully trust my memory...lift me toward the sun or make me languish in his shadow? Archibald MacLeish was certainly a giant throughout his almost 90 years...

Cause for dissent: ten questions for the Bush regime. .(Column)

Harper's Magazine;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. --Archibald MacLeish As a director of the government's ministry of propaganda during World War II, Archibald MacLeish knew that dissent seldom walks on stage to the sound of warm...

EDITORIAL: Thought of the Day.

Sun (Lowell, MA);  December 29, 2006 ;     77 words ......liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.' Archibald MacLeish Copyright (c) 2006, The Sun, Lowell, Mass. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints...

'J.B.': Rorschach's Timely but Tedious Job

The Washington Post;  September 19, 2001 ;     623 words ......as Rorschach Theatre opened its revival last weekend of Archibald MacLeish's 1958 play "J.B.," the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning modernization...and fury, but not enough logical signifying. J.B., by Archibald MacLeish. Directed by Randy Baker. Costumes, Rebecca Tipton; lighting...

SMITH ESTABLISHES FIELD STATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 2, 2008 ;     605 words ......the area is now named the Ada and Archibald MacLeish Field Station in recognition of the...musician, and her husband the late Archibald MacLeish, a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning...atmospheric monitoring project. The Ada and Archibald MacLeish Field Station is envisioned to be...

Through the loss and despair, verses bring fulfillment

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 19, 2006 ;     646 words ...J.B. By Archibald MacLeish. First published in 1958. " . . . and I shouldn't be...imbecile. At the same time, they take my breath away with poetic drama that rivals Shakespeare. I must confess that if "J...the Internet for analyses of the text. I learned that Archibald MacLeish, the ...