ARCHIBALD MACLEISH

AN AMERICAN LIFE

SCOTT DONALDSON

某些偉大的詩人，諸如雨果、保羅．克洛德爾、喬治．塞弗里斯、智利詩人聶魯達、法國詩人佩斯等人，亦為公眾人物曝露於鎂光燈之下；然而放眼廿世紀美國詩壇，僅阿契博得．麥克列許一人昂然獨立。

名列美國現代最為聲譽卓著的人物，麥克列許，前後曾任講師、劇作家、律師、記者、國會圖書館第九任館長、國務院公共事務事務助理國務卿以及發言人的角色之外，其詩人本職更是享譽文壇，足堪美國當代博學家。本書由著名傳記作家史考特．唐納森為其立傳，紀錄其多彩多姿的一生。

Some of the greatest poets--Victor Hugo, Paul Claudel, George Seferis, Pablo Neruda, St.-John Perse--have also been public figures, but in the history of twentieth-century American poetry, Archibald MacLeish stands alone.

Born on May 7, 1892, in Glencoe, Illinois, to the craggy but prosperous president of Carson Pirie Scott and an idealistic mother who had been a college president, Archibald MacLeish grew up to become not only a highly regarded poet, even eventually the unofficial poet laureate of his time, but one of our most dedicated and effective public servants. Educated at Hotchkiss (which he hated), Yale (football, Skull and Bones), and Harvard Law School, he abandoned a promising law practice in Boston on the very day he was to be offered a partnership, to take his wife, a gifted singer, and their young children to Paris and write poetry full-time.

Much of MacLeish's finest work ("Ars poetica," "The End of the World," "You, Andrew Marvell") was written in France, where he lived out the 1920s in the company of Hemingway, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Picasso, and Gerald and Sara Murphy. But as the Great Depression loomed, MacLeish came home, bought a farm in Conway, Massachusetts, and looked for gainful employment. He became one of the early and foremost editors of Fortune, for which he wrote copiously and brilliantly for a decade, often contributing as much as a quarter of each issue.

During this time his poetry became more public ("Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City") and his political opinions more liberal, controversial, and beleaguered. For a year he served as the first curator of Harvard's Nieman fellowships, but in 1939 Franklin Roosevelt summoned him to be librarian of Congress. In that position he entirely reorganized the Library of Congress, continuing this work even while serving in the wartime Office of Facts and Figures and later as assistant secretary of state. In 1945, with his friend Adlai Stevenson, he worked to establish the United Nations and drafted the preamble to its charter.

After war's end MacLeish became Boylston Professor at Harvard, where he spent nearly fifteen years teaching the university's most distinguished writing students every autumn. Wintering in Antigua and summering at his country retreat, he also turned to the creation of verse plays such as the tremendously successful J.B., which won him his third Pulitzer Prize. Surviving nearly into his nineties, he wrote some of his finest lyrics as the darkness drew in. This generous and eloquent biography, richly illustrated, is published on the centenary of his birth.

■史考特．唐納森／Scott Donaldson

Cooley Professor of English at the College of William and Mary,is also the author of biographies of Winfield Townley Scott, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitgerald, and John Cheever.

作者：史考特．唐納森／Scott Donaldson

版本：First Edition

規格：精裝／Hardback，16.5 x 24.2 x 5.2 cm，922頁

出版商：Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

出版日期：1992年01月01日

語言：英文

ISBN-10：0-312-28402-0

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Condition: Good. Pre-owned book yet never been used. No missing pages nor anything that would compromise the legibility or understanding of the text. All pages are intact. With dust jacket.

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