Liberty
Archibald MacLeish, “Liberty” from Collected Poems 1917-1982. Copyright © 1985 by The Estate of Archibald MacLeish. Reprinted with the permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Source: Collected Poems 1917-1952 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1952)
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Poet Archibald MacLeish 1892–1982
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
Subjects Social Commentaries
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza, Epigram
Biography
A poet, playwright, lawyer, and statesman, Archibald MacLeish's roots were firmly planted in both the new and the old worlds. His father, the son of a poor shopkeeper in Glasgow, Scotland, was born in 1837—the year of Victoria's coronation as Queen of England—and ran away first to London and then, at the age of eighteen, to Chicago. His mother was a Hillard, a family that, as Dialogues of Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren . . .
Poems by Archibald MacLeish
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Social Commentaries
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza, Epigram
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