Archibald MacLeish - Conway, MA - Grave of a Famous Person on Waymarking.com

The grave of Archibald MacLeish is located in a family area of Pine Grove Cemetery marked by a large boulder inscribed MACLEISH. His grave is marked by a much smaller stone inscribed:

ARCHIBALD
MACLEISH
1892 - 1982

Writings of Archibald MacLeish:

Poetry

Songs for a Summer's Day (sonnet cycle), 1915.
Tower of Ivory, 1917.
The Happy Marriage, and Other Poems, 1924.
The Pot of Earth, 1925.
Streets in the Moon, 1926.
The Hamlet of A. MacLeish, 1928.
Einstein, 1929.
New Found Land, 1930, Houghton, 1930.
Conquistador, 1932.
Before Match, 1932.
Poems, 1924-1933, 1933.
Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City, 1933.
Poems, 1935.
Public Speech, 1936.
Land of the Free, 1938.
America Was Promises, 1939.
Actfive and Other Poems, 1948.
Collected Poems: 1917-52, 1952. Songs for Eve, 1954.
Collected Poems, 1962.
The Collected Poems of Archibald MacLeish, 1963.
The Wild Old Wicked Man and Other Poems, 1968.
The Human Season: Selected Poems, 1926-72, 1972.
New and Collected Poems, 1917-1976, 1976.
New and Collected Poems, 1917-1984, 1985.

Prose

Housing America 1932.
Jews in America , 1936.
Libraries in the Contemporary Crisis, 1939.
Deposit of the Magna Carta in the Library of Congress on November 28, 1939 , 1939.
The American Experience, 1939.
The Irresponsibles, 1940.
The American Cause, 1941.
The Duty of Freedom, 1941.
The Free Company Presents... The States Talking (radio broadcast, April 2, 1941)
The Next Harvard, 1941.
Prophets of Doom, 1941.
A Time to Speak, 1941.
In Honor of a Man and an Ideal... Three Talks on Freedom (radio broadcast, December 2, 1941)
American Opinion and the War (Rede Lecture at Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, 1942)
A Free Man's Books 1942.
Report to the Nation, 1942.
A Time to Act, 1943.
Martha Hillard MacLeish, 1856-1947 1949.
Poetry and Opinion: The Pisan Cantos of Ezra Pound, 1950.
Freedom Is the Right to Choose: An Inquiry into the Battle for the American Future, 1951.
Poetry and Journalism, 1958.
Poetry and Experience, 1960.
The Dialogues of Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren , 1964.
A Continuing Journey, 1968.
Champion of a Cause: Essays and Addresses on Librarianship, 1971.
Riders on the Earth: Essays and Recollections, 1978.
Letters of Archibald MacLeish, 1907 to 1982, 1983.
Archibald MacLeish: Reflections, 1986.

Drama

Nobodaddy (verse play), 1926.
Union Pacific (verse ballet), 1934.
Panic: A Play in Verse 1935.
The Fall of the City: A Verse Play for Radio 1937.
Air Raid: A Verse Play for Radio 1938.
The Son of Man (radio play), 1947.
The Trojan Horse (verse play), 1952.
This Music Crept by Me upon the Waters (verse play), 1953.
J. B.: A Play in Verse 1958.
The Secret of Freedom (television play), 1960.
Three Short Plays (includes Air Raid, The Fall of the City, and The Secret of Freedom) , 1961.
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story 1965.
An Evening's Journey to Conway, Massachusetts 1967.
Herakles (verse play), 1967.
Scratch , 1971.
The Great American Fourth of July Parade: A Verse Play for Radio, 1975.
Six Plays (Nobodaddy, Panic, The Fall of the City, Air Raid, The Trojan Horse, and This Music Crept by Me upon the Waters), 1980.

Description: Archibald MacLeish was born in Glencoe, IL on May 7, 1892. He graduated from Yale University in and Harvard Law School. His studied at Harvard were interrupted by World War I when he served first as an ambulance driver and then as an artillery captain. After graduating Harvard Law in 1919 he practiced law for three years before moving to France. He returned to America in 1928 and worked as a writer and editor for Fortune Magazine from 1930 -1938. He was confirmed as the head of the Library of Congress in 1939. During World War II he helped develop the Research and Analysis Branch of the Office of Strategic Services, which was the the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency. Throughout his life Macleish publishing many poems, essays and dramas. He one the Pulitizer Prize for poetry in 1932 for his narrative poem Conquistador, again in 1953 for Collected Poems (1917–1952), and for Drama in 1959 for his free verse play J.B. He also won the Bollingen Prize in Poetry (1953), the National Book Award for Poetry (1953), the Tony Award for Best Play in 1959 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977) Archibald MacLeish died on April 20, 1982 and was buried near his family's country estate in Conway, MA. Date of birth: 05/07/1892 Date of death: 04/20/1982 Area of notoriety: Literature Marker Type: Headstone Setting: Outdoor Visiting Hours/Restrictions: Daylight Hours Fee required?: No Web site: [Web Link]

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