Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Poet MacLeish's style is individual, marked but not marred by the omission of punctuation, by typographically broken lines, in the manner but not to the extent indulged in by Poet e. e. cummings. MacLeish's verse often gives the same impression as Hemingway's prose: quiet but threatening, simple but magniloquent. In most of these 14 poems he speaks "with grave and level voice...
...monumental vein, Poet MacLeish carves lines that would look well on a monolith...
...defeatist, MacLeish thinks "Life is a haft that has fitted the palms of many." No expatriate, he thinks a poet's place is in the home country...
...Author. Archibald MacLeish, 38, short, quizzical, Scotch-looking, was born in Glencoe, Ill. He was voted Most Brilliant man in his Yale class ('15). He was both football player and chairman of the Literary Magazine, class poet and captain of water polo. He rose in the Massachusetts bar, but some years ago renounced the law for poetry, which he writes intermittently on his farm in Conway, Mass. FORTUNE employs him on its editorial staff. He has lived much in Europe, is a great friend of Poet Stephen Vincent Benét (John Brown's Body), and Ernest Hemingway. But, vigorous, busy...
Engaged. John, son of Governor George Henry Dern of Utah; and Jean MacLeish, Chicago socialite, whose father (Bruce MacLeish) is general manager of Carson, Pirie, Scott, department store; at Chicago...