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Born in 1892 / Died in 1982 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • Songs for a Summer's Day (sonnet cycle), Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1915.
  • Tower of Ivory, Yale University Press, 1917.
  • The Happy Marriage, and Other Poems, Houghton (Boston), 1924.
  • The Pot of Earth, Houghton, 1925.
  • Streets in the Moon, Houghton, 1926.
  • The Hamlet of A. MacLeish, Houghton, 1928.
  • Einstein, Black Sun Press, 1929.
  • New Found Land, Black Sun Press (limited edition), 1930, Houghton, 1930.
  • Conquistador (narrative poem), Houghton, 1932.
  • Before Match, Knopf (New York, NY), 1932.
  • Poems, 1924-1933, Houghton, 1933.
  • Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City, Day, 1933.
  • Poems, John Lane (London), 1935.
  • Public Speech, Farrar & Rinehart, 1936.
  • Land of the Free, Harcourt, 1938.
  • America Was Promises, Duell, Sloan & Pearce (New York, NY), 1939.
  • Actfive and Other Poems, Random House (New York, NY), 1948.
  • Collected Poems: 1917-52, Houghton, 1952.
  • Songs for Eve, Houghton, 1954.
  • Collected Poems, Houghton, 1962.
  • The Collected Poems of Archibald MacLeish, Houghton, 1963.
  • The Wild Old Wicked Man and Other Poems, Houghton, 1968.
  • The Human Season: Selected Poems, 1926-72, Houghton, 1972.
  • New and Collected Poems, 1917-1976, Houghton, 1976.
  • New and Collected Poems, 1917-1984, Houghton, 1985.

PROSE

  • Housing America (articles from Fortune), Harcourt, 1932.
  • Jews in America (first published in Fortune ), Random House, 1936.
  • Libraries in the Contemporary Crisis, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939.
  • Deposit of the Magna Carta in the Library of Congress on November 28, 1939, Library of Congress, 1939.
  • The American Experience, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939.
  • The Irresponsibles, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940.
  • The American Cause, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1941.
  • The Duty of Freedom, privately printed for the United Typothetae of America, 1941.
  • The Free Company Presents... The States Talking (radio broadcast, April 2, 1941), [New York], 1941.
  • The Next Harvard, Harvard University Press, 1941.
  • Prophets of Doom, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941.
  • A Time to Speak, Houghton, 1941.
  • (With William S. Paley and Edward R. Murrow) In Honor of a Man and an Ideal... Three Talks on Freedom (radio broadcast, December 2, 1941), [New York City], 1942.
  • American Opinion and the War (Rede Lecture at Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, 1942), Macmillan, 1942.
  • A Free Man's Books (limited edition), Peter Pauper, 1942.
  • Report to the Nation, U.S. Office of Facts and Figures, 1942.
  • A Time to Act, Houghton, 1943.
  • The American Story: Ten Broadcasts (presented on NBC Radio, 1944, and for which MacLeish served as commentator), Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1944, 2nd edition, 1960.
  • Martha Hillard MacLeish, 1856-1947, privately printed, 1949.
  • Poetry and Opinion: The Pisan Cantos of Ezra Pound, University of Illinois Press, 1950.
  • Freedom Is the Right to Choose: An Inquiry into the Battle for the American Future, Beacon, 1951.
  • Poetry and Journalism, University of Minnesota Press, 1958.
  • Poetry and Experience, Riverside Editions, 1960.
  • The Dialogues of Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren (televised, 1962), Dutton, 1964.
  • A Continuing Journey, Houghton, 1968.
  • Champion of a Cause: Essays and Addresses on Librarianship, compiled by Eva M. Goldschmidt, American Library Association, 1971.
  • Riders on the Earth: Essays and Recollections, Houghton, 1978.
  • Letters of Archibald MacLeish, 1907 to 1982, edited by R. H. Winnick, Houghton, 1983.
  • Archibald MacLeish: Reflections, edited by Bernard A. Drabeck and Helen E. Ellis, University of Massachusetts Press, 1986.

DRAMA

  • Nobodaddy (verse play), Dunster House, 1926.
  • (Librettist with Nicolas Nabokoff) Union Pacific (verse ballet written for Federal Theatre Project [WPA]), produced on Broadway, 1934.
  • Panic: A Play in Verse (produced on Broadway, 1935), Houghton, 1935.
  • The Fall of the City: A Verse Play for Radio (presented on CBS Radio, 1937, and on CBS-TV, 1962), Farrar & Rinehart, 1937.
  • Air Raid: A Verse Play for Radio (presented on CBS Radio, 1938), Harcourt, 1938.
  • The Son of Man (radio play), CBS Radio, 1947.
  • The Trojan Horse (verse play; presented on BBC-Radio, London, c. 1950), Houghton, 1952.
  • This Music Crept by Me upon the Waters (verse play), Harvard University Press, 1953.
  • J. B.: A Play in Verse (produced at Yale School of Drama; produced on Broadway, 1958), Houghton, 1958.
  • The Secret of Freedom (television play), produced for Sunday Showcase, 1960.
  • Three Short Plays (includes Air Raid, The Fall of the City, and The Secret of Freedom), Dramatists Play Service (New York, NY), 1961.
  • The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (filmscript; produced by Allied Artists, 1965), Houghton, 1965.
  • An Evening's Journey to Conway, Massachusetts (play; produced for NET Playhouse, 1967), Gehenna Press, 1967.
  • Herakles (verse play; produced, 1965), Houghton, 1967.
  • Scratch (based on short story by Stephen Vincent Benet, The Devil and Daniel Webster; produced on Broadway, 1971), Houghton, 1971.
  • The Great American Fourth of July Parade: A Verse Play for Radio, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975.
  • Six Plays (contains Nobodaddy, Panic, The Fall of the City, Air Raid, The Trojan Horse, and This Music Crept by Me upon the Waters), Houghton, 1980.

OTHER

  • (Adapter) William Shakespeare, King Lear (sound recording; recorded from the original CBS broadcast on July 10, 1937), Radio Yesteryear (Sandy Hook, CT), c. 1975.
  • (Co-author with editors of Fortune) Background of War, Knopf, 1937.
  • (Author of foreword) William Meredith, Love Letters from an Impossible Land, Yale University Press, 1944.
  • (Author of introduction) St. John Perse (pseudonym for Alexis Saint-Leger Leger), Eloges and Other Poems, Norton, 1944.
  • (Editor) Gerald Fitzgerald, The Wordless Flesh, [Cambridge], 1960.
  • (Editor) Edwin Muir, The Estate of Poetry, Hogarth, 1962.
  • (Contributor) Let Freedom Ring, American Heritage, 1962.
  • (Editor with E. F. Prichard, Jr., and author of foreword), Felix Frankfurter, Law and Politics: Occasional Papers, 1913-38, Peter Smith, 1963.
  • (Editor) Leonard Baskin, Figures of Dead Men, University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst), 1968.
  • (Author of introduction) The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg, Harcourt, 1970.
  • The Nature of Poetry: Pulitzer Prize Poet Archibald MacLeish Discusses Poetry (cassette recording), interviewed by Walter Kerr, Center for Cassette Studies, c. 1975.
  • (Author of foreword) Anthony Piccione, Anchor Dragging: Poems, Boa Editions, 1977.
  • The Young Soldiers: For Chorus and Orchestra, Hildegard (Bryn Mawr, PA), 1995.

Also librettist for Magic Prison, 1967.