Word: conquistador
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard English department, which approved the selection, MacLeish seemed an ideal choice. As a Pulitzer Prizewinning poet (Conquistador, 1932), MacLeish lives up to the latter-day Boylston tradition of creative rather than scholastic talent as exemplified by the last two holders of the chair: Poet Robert S. Hillyer and Poet Theodore Spencer, who died in January. He will receive upward of $10,000 a year, plus the legendary right to pasture a cow in Harvard Yard. To MacLeish, the job will mean one more turn to a career that has already covered a catalogue of callings, ranging from gentleman-farmer...
...decade or more that survival has been in doubt-and plenty of literary buzzards have circled above the place of apparent extinction. Archibald MacLeish, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for a strong and gorgeous narrative poem on the conquest of Mexico (Conquistador), began, in the middle '30s, to write poetic manifestoes of state in which the oratorical interest outgrew the poetic. Moreover, both kinds of interest deteriorated, reaching a nadir in a thin book of thin versified prattle called America Was Promises, in 1939. In that year MacLeish had accepted the first of a series of public...
...Most recent poem of widespread acclaim was "American Was Promises" in 1939, rivaling in quality the Pulitzer Prize "Conquistador...
...French conquistador's beginnings were humble. He was born into a bourgeois family the year before Napoleon invaded Russia. Later young Bazaine flunked his exams for Paris' Ecole Polytechnique and, after an unsuccessful career as a grocer's boy, enlisted as a private. In a little more than a year he was a sergeant and transferred eagerly to the newly formed Foreign Legion...
...Conquistador, an epic of Cortes' conquest of Mexico...