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Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

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Verk av Archibald MacLeish

J.B.: A Play in Verse (1958) 884 exemplar
Collected Poems 1917 to 1982 (1985) 83 exemplar
Poetry and Experience (1961) 62 exemplar
Conquistador (1932) 24 exemplar
Poems, 1924-1933 (1933) 18 exemplar
Songs for Eve (1954) 17 exemplar
Land of the free (1938) 17 exemplar
Scratch (1656) 13 exemplar
Herakles: A Play in Verse (1964) 11 exemplar
Actfive, and other poems (1948) 8 exemplar
Panic, a play in verse (1935) 8 exemplar
Public speech 7 exemplar
MAC SIX PLAYS (1980) 7 exemplar
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965) 7 exemplar
Tower of ivory (1917) 6 exemplar
TRIBUTE TO A. EDWARD NEWTON CHRISTMAS 1940.|A (1940) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
The Trojan Horse 5 exemplar
The American Cause 3 exemplar
Ars Poetica {poem} 2 exemplar
Poetry And Opinion (1950) 2 exemplar
Spiel um Job 2 exemplar
Housing America 2 exemplar
Law and Politics 1 exemplar
Before March 1 exemplar
October Calf (2020) 1 exemplar
Nobodaddy : a play (1974) 1 exemplar
The Next Harvard 1 exemplar
J.B. Study Guide 1 exemplar
Jews in America (1936) 1 exemplar
POEMES D ARCHIBALD MACLEISH (1981) 1 exemplar

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The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry (1982) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
Men and Women: The Poetry of Love (1970) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
The Paris Review 84 1982 Summer (1982) — Bidragsgivare — 6 exemplar
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Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 4, December 1976 (1976) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Columbia Workshop Plays: Fourteen Radio Dramas — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Eyes of Boyhood (1953) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar

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Andra namn
MacLeish, Archie
Födelsedag
1892-05-07
Avled
1982-04-20
Begravningsplats
Pine Grove Cemetery, Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, USA
Kön
male
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Glencoe, Illinois, USA
Dödsort
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Bostadsorter
Paris, France
Utbildning
Yale University (AB|English)
Harvard University (LLB)
Yrken
poet
lawyer
Librarian of Congress (1939-1944)
editor
playwright
professor (visa alla 9)
ambulance driver (WWI)
captain of artillery (WWI)
Assistant Secretary of State
Relationer
MacLeish, Roderick (nephew)
Hemingway, Ernest (friend)
Pound, Ezra (friend)
Frankfurter, Felix (friend)
Dern, Bruce (great-nephew)
Dern, Laura (great-great-niece)
Organisationer
American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1953])
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Academy of American Poets
League of American Writers
Century Club
Tavern Club (visa alla 26)
Somerset Club
Skull and Bones
Harvard Law Review (editor)
Harvard University
The New Republic (editor)
Fortune Magazine (writer and editor)
Office of Strategic Services
Library of Congress (director)
War Department Office of Facts and Figures (director)
Office of War Information (assistant director)
Amherst College (professor)
U.S. Supreme Court Bar
Conference of Allied Ministers of Education in London (U.S. delegate)
U.S. delegation to London conference drafting UNESCO constitution (chairman)
first U.S. delegate to General Conference of UNESCO in Paris, 1946
first U.S. member of Executive Council of UNESCO
United States Department of State (lecturer in Europe)
Museum of Modern Art (trustee)
Sarah Lawrence College (trustee)
United States Army
Priser och utmärkelser
John Reed Memorial prize (1929)
Shelley Memorial Award (1932)
Golden Rose Trophy of New England Poetry Club (1934)
Levinson Prize (1941)
Commandeur de la Legion d'honneur (1946)
Commander, el Sol del Peru (1947) (visa alla 13)
Bollingen Prize (1952)
Boston Arts Festival poetry award (1956)
Sarah Josepha Hale Award (1958)
Chicago Poetry Day Poet (1958)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977)
National Medal for Literature (1978)
Gold Medal for Poetry, American Academy of Arts and Letters (1979)

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Recensioner

DJ has age wear and other minor issues, but VG cond. overall
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JMS62 | Apr 5, 2023 |
This retelling of the Biblical story of Job was written while the horrors of World War Two, especially the destruction of Hiroshima, were still fresh. It holds up well today. MacLeish does a fine balancing act between recounting and questioning the original tale. In particular, the “happy end” of the original is placed in a bitter light. “Mrs.” Job, a one-dimensional figure in the original, becomes a believable character. As Sarah, she neatly counterpoints J.B.’s expansive postwar American outlook. Their dialogue deftly delineates the two branches that developed out of New England Puritanism. I also liked the device of having God and the adversary who tempts him into flinging J.B. into incomprehensible suffering played by two has-been actors who don masks for their parts, reminiscent of the personae of Greek tragedy.… (mer)
 
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HenrySt123 | 11 andra recensioner | Jul 19, 2021 |
Reading this was fine and good and hard, just like Job is. But seeing it -- there is just something about it. I loved it. I loved all the questions it raises and does not answer. Why is life so hard? Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do good things happen to bad people? What are we to do after we suffer and suffer and suffer? Can we ask questions? Must we curse God and die? Can we not just choose to live? The ultimate to be or not to be, this ancient story made modern so that I can grasp it just a little better.… (mer)
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sydsavvy | 11 andra recensioner | Apr 8, 2016 |

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Statistik

Verk
78
Även av
39
Medlemmar
1,544
Popularitet
#16,681
Betyg
½ 3.5
Recensioner
19
ISBN
44
Språk
2
Favoritmärkt
2

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