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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for American poetry in 1940 for his "Collected Poems," Van Doren will conduct English Sb, an advanced course in creative writing formerly given by Archibald MacLeish, professor emeritus. He will also give a Humanities course in "The Narrative Art," which will consider three or four major narratives such as the Odyssey and Don Quixote...
...America was promises," wrote Poet Archibald MacLeish. As the Depression deepened, all the promises seemed to be perjured, giving at least plausibility to the Communist thesis that capitalism was in a state of "ever deepening" crisis. Some preferred to think it was a corpse already. One group called themselves "The Laughing Morticians." They included Alexander King, since become a TV chatterbox, satirist George Grosz, an exile from Nazi Germany, and Sociologist Gilbert Seldes, all of them eager to say the last rites over capitalism. The U.S.S.R., a distant and unverifiable protoutopia, brandished a blank check drawn on the future...
...years ago MacLeish offered eight public lectures as part of his Humanities course before a packed crowd in Sanders Theatre. His recent book, Poetry and Experience, repeated the lectures, which came just after the success on Broadway of his verse play J. B. The play won MacLeish his third Pulitzer Prize. Conquistador in 1932 gave him his first Pulitzer, and Collected Poems, 1917-1952 received a Pulitzer, the Bolligen Prize, and the National Book Award...
...MacLeish's most remembered course at the College is English S, a small select seminar in creative writing...
...course, in which MacLeish annually tutored 12 selected student writers, has been called the most distinguished writing course in America. Competition among students for the 12 places each year was severe.ARCHIBALD MACLEISH...