THE POET ON CAPITOL HILL
19
The verse of Mr. MacLeish's own public-speech phase has been his
demonstration of what the responsible language of acceptance and
belief should be. A glance at what he has arrived at in this "dan–
gerous" medium, and what faith and credit he has managed to
extract from such experience as ours, may be opportune.
(To Be Continued)
NOTES
1)
Publi1hed
by
Duell, Sloan, and Pearce,
1939
and
1940;
75c and
$1
respectively.
2) Two of the 6ut were
The American Experience
(printed with
The Hispanic Foundation in The
Library of Con1reu
by
Robert
C.
Smith).
U. S. Government Priptinc
Office,
1939; and
Libraries
in
the
Contempor11~y
Crisis,
an Addreu by Archibald MacLeish at the Carnegie Institute, Pitts·
burgh, Pa. Founden' Day, October 19,
b39.
U. S. Government Printing Office, 1939.
3) Quotation• from TAe
Jrresponsibles
are from
The Nation,
May 18, 1940, pp. 618-23, where the essay
&nt appeared; here page
6:l3.
4)
Ibid.,
p. 619. Compare what
it
said on the freedom of the artist in
••to
the Young Men o£ Wall
Street,"
Saturday Review oj Literature,
January 16, 1932, pp. 453-4.
5) "Post-War Writeu and Pre-War Readers," a apeech before the American Association !or Adult
Education" ao printed in
The New Republic,
June
10, 1940,
pp.
789·90.
6)
C/.
"Men of My Century Loved Mozart" in
Poem•, 1924·1933
(1933),
pp.
89·90,
and tho argument
in "Poetry and tho Public World,'.'
A.tl4ntic Monthly,
June 1939, pp. 823-30.
7) Matthew Joaephaon, "Juriet-111,"
The NeUJ Yorker,
December 14, 1940, p. 34.
8) "Putnam Praises MacLeiah,"
Wilson Library Bulktin,
November 193J, p. 221.
9)
"lo Challenc..e Not Defenae,"
Poetry,
July 1938, pp. 212-19,
passim.
10) "Libraries in the ·Contemporary Crisis,''
The Library Journal,
November 15, 1939, pp. 879-82,
pa.uim. Cj.
also "0£ the Librarian'• Profe11ion,"
ll.tltmtic Monthly,
June 1940, pp. 786-90, and
'"The Obligation of Libraries in a Democracy,"
Wilson Library Bulletin,
April 1940, pp. 560·1.
11) "Foreword,"
Poems,
1924·1933.
The "remark" by the present writer,
Poetry,
June 1934, p. 150.
12)
The Net4 Republic,
Juno
10, 1940,
p.
790.
13)
Ibid.,
p.
790.
14)
"Archibald MacLeish and 'the Word',"
The New Republic,
July
1, 1940,
pp.
30·2.
15) "The Tough·Muecle Boye of Literature,"
The American Mercury,
November 1940, pp. 369-74.
16)
"In Challenge Not Defense," Poetry, July
1938,
p.
212.
17)
Ibid.,
219.
18)
The New Republic,
June
10, 1940,
p.
790.
19)
The Nation,
May
18, 1940,
p.
622•
.20)
"Behold the Critiquins,'
The Saturday Review of Literature,
J8nuary 21, 1928, pp. 529-31.
21)
Ibid.,
531.
22)
Ibid.,
530.
23) "Stephen Spender an·d the Critics,"
The Hound and Horn,
October-December 1933, pp. 145-7. Mr.
M'acLeilh'• opinion• of critic• are 1cattered; beeide1 these two article• may be noted the "Fore·
word" to
Poem1,
1924-1933
and the introduction to the
Poem!
of Jamea Agee. For an example of
Mr. MacLei1h'1 tactiCI in dealin1 with "People who arpe with him, see hi1 reply to Harold Roten ·
ber1'• "The God in the Car" (an analy1h of "In Challenge Not Defense,.,
Poetry,
September 1938.
pp.
334·42)
in his letter printed
Ibid.,
pp.
342·3.
24) "The Social Cant.''
The New Republic,
December 21. 1932, pp. 156-8; here 156.
25)
Ibid.,
156.
Cj.
..
The Poetry of Karl Marx,"
Saturday Review
.o'f
Literature,
February 17, 1934, pp.
485-6.
26) "Invocation to the Social Muse,"
The
Neut
Republic,
October 26, 1932, p. 296.
27) "The War
il
Oun,"
New Maue1,
June 22, 1937, pp. 5-6.
28)
Ibid.
Cj.
also another venion of thi1 contribution to the Congress in "Spain and American Writen.'"
The Writer in a Chant;int Jrorld,
edited by Henry Hart for the League of A'tnerican Authors (New
York,
1937),
pp.
56·62.
29)
The New Republic,
June
10, 1940,
p.
790.
30) "When America Goes to War,"
Modern Monthly,
June 1935, pp. 199-204; here 201. Italics mine.
31)
Loc.
cit.
32) "Speech to the Scholars,"
The Saturday Review of Literature,
June 12, 1937. p. 12.
33)
The New Republic,
September
20, 1933,
p.
159.
The following quotation: Ibid.,
160.
34)
Ibid.,
160.
35) Reprinted from Streeu
of
the Moon
(1926)
in
Poem•, 1924·1933,
pp.
134·6.
36) "Lines for an Interment/'
The New Republic,
September 20, 1933, p. 159.
57)
The
Modem
Monthly,
June
1935,
p.
201.
58)
The Soturday Review o/
Literature, January
21, 1928,
p.
530.
39) uPreface to an American Manifesto,"
The Forum,
April 1934, p. 195.
40)
Loc. ell.
41)
TM New Republic,
June
10, 1940,
p.
790.
~)
"The Social Cant,"
The New Republic,
December 21, 1932, p. 156. For an earlier version of Mr.
MacLeish'• attitude towArd modem writers see "The New Age and the New Writers,"
Yale
R.~view,
January
1923,
pp.
314·21.
43) "Public Speech and Private Speech in Poetry,"
Yale Review,
M'arch 1938, pp. 536-47 ; hPre, p. 538-9.
44) "Poetry and the Public World,"
Atlantic Monthly,
June
1939,
pp.
823.30;
here p.
828·30.
