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Archibald MacLeish;American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work. ;Library of Congress?reading room;;MacLeish was born in Glencoe, Illinois. He attended the Hotchkiss School from 1907 to 1911 before entering Yale University, He then enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. From this list,it’s evident that he was quite well educated. ;;;;;In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt persuaded him to accept an appointment as Librarian of Congress, a position he kept for five years. MacLeish thoroughly reorganized the Librarys administrative offices and established the Librarys series of poetry readings. In 1944 he was appointed assistant Secretary of State for cultural affairs. After World War II, MacLeish became the first American member of the governing body of UNESCO, and chaired the first UNESCO conference in Paris. ;In 1949 Archibald Macleish retired from his political activism to become Harvards Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory.His Collected Poems (1952) won him a second Pulitzer Prize, as well as the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize. J.B. (1958), a verse play based on the book of Job, earned him a third Pulitzer, this time for drama. And in 1965 he received an Academy Award for his work on the screenplay of The Eleanor Roosevelt Story. Archibald MacLeish died in April 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts. ;Major works ;Awards;“Ars Poetica”;;;On “Ars Poetica 拉丁语” ;;;;;;Style and point of view ;;;;;;;;诗艺1.一首诗应该是缄默可触摸的如同一枚圆果无声犹如拇指旁的旧徽章寂静宛如窗壁上被袖口磨光长满青苔的石头一首诗应该是无言如同鸟群的飞翔;;Ars Poetica (1926) 　　;;;;;;Theme ;Structure and Content? ;;;Figures of speech;;Rhyme and Meter;Rhyme and meter;Source ;References:;Assignment