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Archibald MacLeish
(1892 - 1982 / Illinois / United States)
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Ahme Ahmed (11/7/2008 10:36:00 AM)
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please i want Archibald MacLeish ars poetica analysis please
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"America is promises to
Take!
America is promises to
Us
To take them
Brutally
With love but
Take them." |
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Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982), U.S. poet. "America Was Promises," (1940).
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"Poets ... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts." |
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Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982), U.S. poet. repr. As "Art and Law" in Riders on Earth (1978). "Apologia," Harvard Law Review (Cambridge, June 1972).
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