Archibald MacLeish
American poet, playwright, and public servant who won three Pulitzer Prizes. His Ars Poetica argued that poetry should not mean but be, and his verse plays were widely performed.
Works
- ConquistadorNarrative poem depicting the Spanish conquest of Mexico in elevated historical verse
- Collected PoemsMajor collection of MacLeish's poetry spanning decades of twentieth-century modernism
- J.B.Verse drama retelling the Book of Job as meditation on human suffering and faith
- Ars PoeticaFamous aphoristic poem defining poetry's meaning and purpose through paradox