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    A Study Guide for Archibald MacLeish's "Ars Poetica"
    A Study Guide for Archibald MacLeish's "Ars Poetica"
    A Study Guide for Archibald MacLeish's "Ars Poetica"
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    A Study Guide for Archibald MacLeish's "Ars Poetica"

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    A Study Guide for Archibald MacLeish's "Ars Poetica," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535818698
    A Study Guide for Archibald MacLeish's "Ars Poetica"

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      Ars Poetica

      Archibald MacLeish

      1928

      Introduction

      Ars Poetica is one of the most famous and most quoted poems of twentieth-century American literature, possibly because it addresses a subject that all poets and poetry teachers hold dear—poetry itself. The title is Latin and can be translated as The Art of Poetry. In addition, the life of the poem’s author, Archibald MacLeish, showed the sort of commitment and received the sort of recognition that supporters of the art like to think of when examining the artist.

      MacLeish was born into a well-to-do, but not extremely wealthy, family in 1892, in Glencoe, Illinois. He went to private school, prep school, and then Yale University, where he was active in writing and had work published in The Yale Review. After his graduation, he married, and then served in France during World War I. Like many who were to become that generation’s greatest literary figures, MacLeish had his belief in the world’s basic goodness and logic smashed by the inhuman scale of destruction that modern warfare reached. Upon returning to the United States, he earned his law degree and successfully practiced law for four years.

      In 1923 MacLeish gave up his law career to write poetry, moving with his wife and two children to Paris, where he associated with some of the most innovative writers America has ever produced, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Dos Passos, as well as artists from other countries and disciplines. He later said that, like practicing law, the poet’s job was to make sense of our lives. To create an order which a bewildered, angry heart can recognize. To imagine man. It was in Paris that he wrote Ars Poetica, published in the 1928 volume Streets in the

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