Archibald-Macleish阿齐博尔德·麦克利什.ppt

Archibald MacLeish;American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work. ;Library of Congress?reading room;“I attribute my interest in MacLeish to serendipity(意外发现的珍品（的本领）), curiosity, and a willingness to challenge myself by exploring the work of a poet I believe few would be interested in reading today.” --Gertrude Stein ;MacLeish was born in Glencoe, Illinois. He attended the Hotchkiss School from 1907 to 1911 before entering Yale University, He then enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. From this list,it’s evident that he was quite well educated. ;In 1916, he married Ada Hitchcock.[3] His studies were interrupted by World War I, He in 1919, taught law for a semester for the government department at Harvard, then worked briefly as an editor for The New Republic. ;In 1923 MacLeish left his law firm and moved with his wife to Paris, France, where they joined the community of literary expatriates that included such members as Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. They also became part of the famed coterie of Riviera hosts Gerald and Sarah Murphy, which included Hemingway F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos,and Pablo Picasso .;While in Paris, Harry Crosby, publisher of the Black Sun Press, offered to publish MacLeishs poetry. Both MacLeish and Crosby had rejected conventional careers in the legal and banking fields. Crosby published MacLeishs long poem Einstein in a deluxe edition of 150 copies that sold quickly. MacLeish was paid US$200 for his work. ;He returned to America in 1928. From 1930 to 1938 he worked as a writer and anti-fascist editor for Fortune Magazine.By the 1930s, he considered Capitalism to be symbolically dead and wrote the verse play Panic (1935) in response. ;In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt persuaded him to accept an appointment as Librarian of Congress, a position he kept fo