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by: Archibald MacLeish
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.52
EAN: 9780395395691
ISBN: 0395395690
Label: Mariner Books
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: December 09, 1985
Publisher: Mariner Books
Sales Rank: 301520
Studio: Mariner Books
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This expanded volume of the distinguished poet's work contains 29 previously uncollected poems, some that had been published, and some found in manuscript after MacLeish's death in 1982. This is the definitive volume produced by a life that filled several careers as writer, teacher, and public servant, but was devoted above all to poetry.
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Rating: - Bring him back!
I say, Bring him back! because MacLeish has pretty well dropped from sight, except for 'Ars Poetica' and 'You, Andrew Marvell.' And it's true that one has to mine this hefty volume pretty carefully for the real treasure. Except for Conquistador (MacLeish's 1932 Pulitzer Prize-winning epic--really, it's a sort of epic lyric--of the Spanish conquest of Mexico), MacLeish's long poems hold very little aesthetic interest, and even Conquistador is marred by its indebtedness to the Ezra Pound of the early ... Read More
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