This site offers a thorough biography on Archibald Macleish and analysis of his poems "Ars Poetica" and "End of the World."

20th-Century Poets
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This comprehensive site includes a list of 12 links to full text versions of MacLeish's poetry.

BIOGRAPHY
The poet and playwright Archibald MacLeish was born in Glencoe, Illinois. Following his graduation from Yale in 1915, MacLeish fought in World War I, rising to the rank of captain in the artillery. His first collection of poems, Tower of Ivory, was published in 1917. After the war MacLeish attended Harvard Law School and graduated at the top of his class. However, he stopped practicing law after only a few years and moved to Paris with his family to concentrate on poetry. MacLeish published four collections of poetry in Paris and then returned to the United States to research the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The result was the Pulitzer prize-winning Conquistador (1932). He published eight more books of poetry before winning the Pulitzer again for his Collected Poems in 1952. Aside from poetry, he wrote verse-plays and radio plays; his best-known work for the stage is J.B. (1958), a modern retelling of the story of Job that won him yet another Pulitzer in 1959. MacLeish played an active role in politics and the academy as well as being a distinguished man of letters. He was a librarian of congress from 1939 to 1944, assistant secretary of state from 1944 to 1945, and a U.S. representative at the first UNESCO conference in Paris in 1964. Archibald MacLeish died in 1982.