
Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American writer, educator, and public official. His most famous work includes Elpenor, Panic, and The Fall of the City.1
Works
Poetry
- Class Poem (1915)
- Songs for a Summer’s Day (1915)
- Tower of Ivory (1917)
- The Happy Marriage (1924)
- The Pot of Earth (1925)
- Nobodaddy (1926)
- The Hamlet of A. Macleish (1928)
- Streets in the Moon (1928)
- Einstein (1929)
- New Found Land (1930)
- Conquistador (1932)
- Elpenor (1933)
- Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller’s City (1933)
- Poems, 1924–1933 (1935)
- Public Speech (1936)
- The Land of the Free (1938)
- Actfive and Other Poems (1948)
- Collected Poems (1952)
- Songs for Eve (1954)
- The Collected Poems of Archibald MacLeish (1962)
- The Wild Old Wicked Man and Other Poems (1968)
- The Human Season, Selected Poems 1926–1972 (1972)
- New and Collected Poems, 1917–1976 (1976)
Non-fiction
- Jews in America (1936)
- America Was Promises (1939)
- The Irresponsibles: A Declaration (1940)
- The American Cause (1941)
- A Time to Speak (1941)
- American Opinion and the War: the Rede Lecture (1942)
- A Time to Act: Selected Addresses (1943)
- Freedom Is the Right to Choose (1951)
- Art Education and the Creative Process (1954)
- Poetry and Experience (1961)
- The Dialogues of Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren (1964)
- The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965)
- A Continuing Journey (1968)
- Champion of a Cause: Essays and Addresses on Librarianship (1971)
- Poetry and Opinion: the Pisan Cantos of Ezra Pound (1974)
- Riders on the Earth: Essays & Recollections (1978)
- Letters of Archibald MacLeish, 1907–1982 (1983)
Drama
- Union Pacific (ballet) (1934)
- Panic (1935)
- The Fall of the City (1937)
- Air Raid (1938)
- Colloquy for the States (1943)
- The American Story: Ten Broadcasts (1944)
- The Trojan Horse (1952)
- This Music Crept By Me on the Waters (1953)
- J.B. (1958)
- Three Short Plays: The Secret of Freedom. Air Raid. The Fall of the City. (1961)
- An Evening’s Journey to Conway (1967)
- Herakles (1967)
- Scratch (1971)
- The Great American Fourth of July Parade (1975)
- Six Plays (1980)
See also
External Links
- Archibald MacLeish Collection at Greenfield Community College
- Archibald MacLeish Collection at Mount Holyoke College
- Archibald MacLeish Collection at Yale University
- Interview with The Paris Review (Summer 1974)
- Academy of American Poets profile
- Goodreads profile
- IMDb profile
- Poetry Foundation profile
- Archibald MacLeish on Find A Grave
References
1. “Archibald MacLeish.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed July 27, 2020.