Archibald Macleish

–Brittinee Radcliffe

About Archibald Macleish

• Born on May 7th, 1892• Died on April 20th, 1982• His mother was Martha Hillard. She was a

college professor and president of Rockford college

• His father was Andrew Macleish and he was a dry foods merchant

• Attended Hotchkiss school beofre moving on to Yale

• Excelled in water polo and football• He was elected Phi Beta Kappa of his

graduating class• Graduated from Yale in 1915

• Married Ada Hitchcock in 1916• He served briefly in the army• Published his first book, Tower of Ivory in 1917• He and his family move to Paris France in 1923

so that he could better devote himself to his poetry

• Taught himself Italian so as to study from the fourteenth century poet Dante Alighieri

• Spent five years in France then moved back to the states and was able to live off of his writing

• He bought a small farm in Massachusetts were he and Ada lived until his death in 1982

• Published more than 50 books of poetry, drama, and essays

• Accepted positions from - The Library of Congress- Assistant Secretary of State- Part of the US Delegation to the

United Nations (UNESCO)

- Established United Nations educational Scientific and Cultural Organization

List of Poems he wrote

• An Eternity• Ancestral• Ars Poetica• Autumn • Baccalaureate • Before March• Broken Promise

• Definition of the Frontiers• Dr. Sigmund Freud Discovers the Sea Shell• Hypocrite Auteur• Immortal Autumn• Invocation to the Social Muse• Liberty• Lines for a Prologue• Nocturne• Not Marble Not the Gilded Monuments• Poem in Prose

• The End of the World• The Night Dream• The Old Men in the Leaf Smoke• The Rock in the Seas• The Sheep in the Ruins• The Snowflake That is Now and Hence Forever• The Too-Late Born• The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak• Two Poems from the World

• Unfinished History• Voyage• Way-Station• You, Andrew Marvell

Things that influenced his writing

• Being in the Army• Moving to Paris• What he saw around him

Bibliography

• Works Cited• "All Poems of the Poet Archibald Macleish."

PoemHunter.Com - Thousands of Poems and Poets.. Poetry Search Engine. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Nov. 2010.

• <http://www.poemhunter.com/>. "Archibald MacLeish Biography." ENotes - Literature Study Guides, Lesson Plans, and More. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Nov. 2010.

• <http://www.enotes.com/j-b/author-biography>. "Archibald Macleish." Yahoo! Image Search. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Nov. 2010. <http://images.search.yahoo.com/>.

Le Finis

Questions • 1. When was the year that he died?

• 2. What was the first college he attended?

• 3. What was the first book he published?

• 4. Name one of his works.

• 5. What was one of the things that influenced his writings?