Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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STREETS IN THE MOON-Archibald MacLeish-Houghton Mifflm...
...week of jingles, Poet MacLeish remembers the poet's lay, to keep it lyric. The wind in the grass is still, as in his earliest writings, a spiritual phenomenon. But he has since found power in harsh words-"an oak screams in the wind . . . the wet wood smoke blinds...
...Yale, he roomed with a sober-sided boy called Donald Ogden Stewart. Charles Walker's literary interests-the Lit, Archibald MacLeish's poetry, the Elizabethan Club-doubtless helped Funnyman Stewart's Parody Outline of History, Mr. & Mrs. Haddock, etc., to occur...
...MacLeish, and "Two Lives" by W. E. Leonard are comparatively little known, but are very much worth attention. To make any criticism of them short of a review would be difficult and not very illuminating...
Sometimes the poem, submitting too much to manner, misses the rhythm which its theme imposes; equally often it rises, with an orchestration of dark vowel music, thrusting cadences, rich rhymes dexterously jarring, to utterance that will stamp Mr. MacLeish, young Boston Irishman, as an important poet to all those who attach importance to perfection of expression...