Macleish Robert (22 results)
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Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.Better World Books
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Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
Published by Modern Poetry Assoc, Chicago 1948
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Ed Buryn Books, Nevada City, CA, U.S.A.Ed Buryn Books
Contact seller4-star seller1st edition. Excellent issue, scarce. 5-1/2 x 7-3/4, 124 pp, b/w photos. Good with some pencil underlines, worn spine. Paperback in pale blue illus wraps.
Published by Privately Printed for The Typophiles [by William Edwin Rudge] 1942
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.Arundel Books
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall (small). A very good copy with slight creases, rubbing and browning to wrappers (chiefly at spine edges); slight internal browning (chiefly to edges). 10, [2] pages. Reissue in pamphlet format of the interview with the noted American poet… (then just recently appointed to the post of Librarian of Congress); originally published in the New York Times, May 10, 1942. One of 375 copies (the entire edition), designed and printed for The Typophiles at the Elm Tree Press, Woodstock, Vermont, by William Edwin Rudge. Fairly well-preserved ephemeral piece. Title Vignette (dark red/white).
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- Periodical
Seller: Bradley Ross Books, Auburn, CA, U.S.A.Bradley Ross Books
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good clean complete issue. Baseball cover by Robert Benton Charmatz. Includes article The Staging of the Play "J.B." by Elia Kazan and Archibald Macleish. Also Baseball--The Brutal Art of Bench Jockeying. Small chip to spine end. Charmatz, Robert Benton (illustrator). Periodica…l.
Published by Privately Printed for The Typophiles/ (Elm Tree Press), New York 1942
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- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. 12mo. 11pp. Printed wrappers. Slight sunning on wraps, near fine. One of 375 copies. Nicely printed at the Elm Tree Press in Woodstock, Vermont by William Edwin Rudge.
Published by Privately Printed for The Typophiles, New York 1942
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- First Edition
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.Saucony Book Shop
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Booklet, mauve wraps, lettered in black. 12 pp. Just a hint of handling wear, essentially as issued. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
- Softcover
Seller: Losaw Service, Lenox Dale, MA, U.S.A.Losaw Service
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Large softcover has minor shelf wear. Pages are bright and unmarked, solid binding. Actual book for sale pictured.
More imagesSeven American Poets from MacLeish to Nemerov: An Introduction (First Edition)
Denis Donoghue (editor); Archibald MacLeish; Richard Eberhart; Theodore Roethke; Randall Jarrell; John Berryman; Robert Lowell; Howard Nemerov (contributors)
Language: English
Published by University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 1975
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- First Edition
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.Dan Pope Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1975. First edition. First printing. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean copy in an unclipped jacket. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Jacket has a tiny closed tear on rear panel and some wea…r to corners (as pictured), and is otherwise fine. F1400A.
Published by Ticknor & Fields, New York 1992
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- First Edition
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, Caxton Club, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Bibliodisia Books, Caxton Club
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.
Published by Flushing, NY: The Paris Review 1982
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- First Edition
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.Philip Smith, Bookseller
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued). 1st edition. Near Fine. 8vo, 256pp, printed wrappers. Interesting later issue of this essential postwar literary magazine. Includes interviews with Philip Larkin and James Merrill, a plaque by Jenny Holzer and Peter Nadin, other great content. Unmarked co…py, minor wear. Not Signed.
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Seller: Koster's Collectible Books, Farmingville, NY, U.S.A.Koster's Collectible Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in dust jacket. Crisp rust cloth boards. Previous owner's notation on first endpaper. Text pages are crisp and clean. Illustrated dust jacket shows edge wear and rubbing. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.…Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 52 pages.
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Published by The Newport Restoration Foundation 2010
- Softcover
Seller: Lavendier Books, Foster, RI, U.S.A.Lavendier Books
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Softcover. Condition: As New. The Newport Restoration Foundation; Newport, 2010. Softcover. A Near Fine, binding firm, interior and extremities tidy, few small scuff marks bottom text block edge, small abrasion bottom rear cover, trace handling marks, a hint of sunning to page margins, a nice, clean and unmarked copy in Oversize… Wraps. 4to[quarto or approx. 9.5 x 12 inches], 127pp., glossary, sources, indexed, color and b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.
The Atlantic - July 1942
(MacLEISH, Archibald, Robert Hillyer, Virginia Woolf, Christopher Morley, Bernard DeVoto, et al.)
Published by Atlantic Monthly, Concord, New Hampshire 1942
- Softcover
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Magazine. Quarto. Perfectbound in wrappers. Very good with rubbing and moderate edgewear including nicks, tears and creases. This issue features contributions from Archibald MacLeish, Robert Hillyer, Virginia Woolf, Christopher Morley, Bernard DeVoto and many others.
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Published by Time, Inc., NY 1961
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Seller: Legacy Books II, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.Legacy Books II
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Soft cover. Condition: VG. Entire issue, July 14, 1961, in original wraps with portrait of the subject, light general wear, occasional fine creasing noted at cover, still overall clean and bright, with mailing label. The elusive, highly collectible Hemingway memorial issue, with a preface by LIFE, a photographic essay, including… explanatory text, with 10 pages of pictures spanning Hemingway's adult life, by Hemingway's friend Robert Capa, who would work with Hemingway multiple times for Life Magazine, and Larry Burrows, Francis Miller, George Leavens, John Bryson, and Loomis Dean, and the 2-page MacLeish essay, His Mirror Was Danger. From the editor's preface, "For us at Life, the death of Ernest Hemingway is a special loss, for he was a cherished colleague of ours. From the time in 1937 when he wrote captions for one of our picture stories on the Spanish War to last summer, when we published parts of his latest work (The Dangerous Summer), he was both a contributor to Life and a good friend." See Hanneman H1274. Surprisingly scarce. Robert Capa, Larry Burrows, Francis Miller, George Leavens, John Bryson, Loomis Dean (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1976 1976
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.Joseph Valles - Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. liv, 1076 pages ; 23 cm ; ISBN 9780195020588, 0195020588 ; OCLC 2513358 ; blue cloth in dustjacket ; An anthology of poems by American poets from Taylor and Bradstreet to Plath, Ginsberg, and Ashbery, reflecting the traditions and achievements of three centuri…es ; Contents: The prologue ; The flesh and the spirit ; The author to her book ; Before the birth of one of her children ; To my dear and loving husband ; Some verses upon the burning of our house July 10th, 1666 / Anne Bradstreet Meditation 8 ; Meditation 9 ; Meditation 10 ; Meditation 29 ;Meditation 62 / Philip Pain 8. Meditation. Joh. 6.51. I am the living bread ; 38. Meditation. 1 Joh. 2.1. An advocate with the father ; 112. Meditation. 2 Cor. 5.14. If one died for all then are all dead ; The preface [to God's Determinations] ; Upon a spider catching a fly ; Huswifery ; Let by rain ; Upon a wasp child with cold / Edward Taylor George the Third's soliloquy ; The wild honey suckle ; To an author ; The Indian burying ground / Philip Freneau On being brought from Africa to America / Phillis Wheatley The Hasty-Pudding: Canto I ; Advice to a raven in Russia / Joel Barlow Thanatopsis ; To a waterfowl ; Green River ; The prairies / William Cullen Bryant Each and all /; The problem ; The visit ;r Uriel ; The sphinx ; Alphonso of Castile ; Mithridates ; Guy ; Hamatreya ; The rhodora ; The humble-bee ; The snow-storm ; Woodnotes I ; Woodnotes II ; Ode, inscribed to W.H. Channing ; Give all to love ; Thine eyes still shined ; Merlin I ; Merlin II ; Bacchus ; Xenophanes ; Blight ; Concord hymn ; Brahma ; Nemesis ; Two Rivers ; Waldeinsamkeit ; Terminus ; Compensation ; Song of Seyd Nimetollah of Kuhistan ; Days / Ralph Waldo Emerson Hymn to the night ; The day is done ; The fire of drift-wood ; from The Song of Hiawatha: introduction ; The Jewish Cemetery at Newport ; My lost youth ; Snow-flakes ; Aftermath ; Chaucer ; The tide rises, the tide falls ; The cross of snow / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ichabod ; To my old schoolmaster ; Skipper Ireson's ride ; Telling the bees ; My playmate ; Barbara Frietchie ; Snow-bound ; What the birds said ; My triumph ; The lost occasion / John Greenleaf Whittier The deacon's masterpiece ; The chambered nautilus ; Dorothy Q. / Oliver Wendell Holmes A dream within a dream ; Song from Al Aaraaf ; Introduction [to Poems, 1831] ; To Helen ; Israfel ; The city in the sea ; The sleeper ; The haunted palace ; The Coliseum ; Sonnet-Silence ; The conqueror worm ; Dream-land ; The raven ; Ulalume-A ballad ; Eldorado ; For Annie ; Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe The columbine ; The new birth; The dead ; The grave-yard ; Thy brother's blood ; The new man; The clouded morning ; The trees of life ; I was sick and in prison ; Yourself ; The lost ; The fair morning ; The day of denial ; The lament of the flowers ; The sumach leaves / Jones Very I am a parcel of vain strivings tied ; Light-winged smoke, Icarian bird ; Inspiration ; Within the circuit of this plodding life ; The river swelleth more and more ; Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf / Henry David Thoreau The Battle Hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe from A fable for critics ; Emerson ; Bryant ; Whittier ; Hawthorne ; Cooper ; Poe and Longfellow ; Holmes ; Lowell ; from The biglow Papers: the courtin' ; Ode recited at the Harvard Commemoration / James Russell Lowell Come, said my soul ; Song of myself ; A woman waits for me ; Song of the open road ; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry ; On the beach at night ; Me imperturbe ; From pent-up aching rivers ; In paths untrodden ; I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing ; Out of the cradle endlessly rocking ; As I ebb'd with the ocean of life ; Long I thought that knowledge alone would suffice ; O living always, always dying ; Shut not your doors ; Vigil strange I kept on the field one night ; The wound-dresser ; Give me the splendid silent sun ; When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd ; One's self I sing ; To a stranger ; Aboard at a sh; FINE/FINE. Book.
Partisan Review January - February, 1941 / Morton Dauwen Zabel "Archibald MacLeish: The Poet On Capitol Hill (Part I) / Dwight Macdonald "Reading fro Left to Right" / Alan Mather "Functionalism and Naive Materialism in American Architecture" / Robert Fitzgerald "Cross Country: Notes on a Journey" / George L K Morris "Metropolitan Storage Warehouse" / William Petersen "What Has Become Of European Writers And Artists/ A Check List"
F W Dupree, Clement Greenberg, Dwight Macdonald, George L K Morris, William Phillips and Philip Rahv (Editors) / Morton Dauwen Zabel "Archibald MacLeish: The Poet On Capitol Hill (Part I) / Dwight Macdonald "Reading fro Left to Right" / Alan Mather "Functionalism and Naive Materialism in American Architecture" / Robert Fitzgerald "Cross Country: Notes on a Journey" / George L K Morris "Metropolitan Storage Warehouse" / William Petersen "What Has Become Of European Writers And Artists/ A Check List"
Published by Partisan Review 1941
- Softcover
- Periodical
Seller: Shore Books, London, United KingdomShore Books
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. 84 pages. Morton Dauwen Zabel "Archibald MacLeish: The Poet On Capitol Hill (Part I) / Dwight Macdonald "Reading fro Left to Right" / Alan Mather "Functionalism and Naive Materialism in American Architecture" / Robert Fitzgerald "Cross Country: Notes on a Journey" / George L K Morris "Metropolitan St…orage Warehouse" / William Petersen "What Has Become Of European Writers And Artists/ A Check List".
Published by The Poetry Center, YM-YWHA New York, NY 1960
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Seller: Specific Object / David Platzker, New York, NY, U.S.A.Specific Object / David Platzker
Contact seller5-star seller[12] pp.; 20.7 x 13.9 cm.; staple bound; duotone; edition size unknown; unsigned and numbered; offset-printed Catalogue published in conjunction with the twenty-second season of readings and lectures presented by The Poetry Center, New York City, October 1960 - May 1961. Readings by Brendan Behan, Marianne Moore, William Staffor…d, Reed Whittemore, Angus Wilson, Archibald MacLeish, W.H. Auden, Richard Hugo, Joseph Langland, Claire McAllister, Anthony Hecht, W.S. Merwin, Norman Mailer, Robert Lowell, Margaret Avison, Edward Dorn, Theodore Enslin, e.e. cummings, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hazel, David Ignatow, Diane Wakoski, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, Stanley Kunitz and others. Includes author biographies. Very Good. Mailed catalogue with mailing marks and wear, rusted staples and yellowed covers, otherwise Fine.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston 1954
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- First Edition
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Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Small 4to. Faux velum paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. vi, 58pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket age toned and faintly stained and mildly edgeworn, with several small edge chips -- but complete and fairly attractive nonetheless. Tight and nice first edition of this slim verse gathering,…"a long lyric sequence comprising some of the sweetest and most subtle lyrics in the language." This unusual bears a handsome presentation inscription on the half-title page: "For Adlai with the hope that he will / get that ship off the mud / Barbara." Presenter "Barbara" is Barbara Ward (1914-81), the Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, influential British economist and author who befriended many American policy makers such as John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson -- and Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65), Illinois governor and two-time Democratic presidential candidate. Ward's amusing inscription may refer to the poem "Ship of Fools" on page 54, which opens: "shoaled on this shingle, / Beached by the ebbed age, grounded." MacLeish was also a good friend of Stevenson's.
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Seller: Le Livre à Venir, Chantelle, , FranceLe Livre à Venir
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Revue internationale de littérature contemporaine. Rome, directeur: Giorgio Bassani. Un volume 14,3x23,2cm broché sous jaquette, de 617 pages. Bon état. Les textes sont publiés dans leur langue d'origine. Fondée en 1948 par Marguerite Caetani, princesse de Bassiano (également mécène de la revue Commerce de 1924 à 1932), dont le…palais se trouvait à Rome via delle Botteghe oscure. Excellente revue internationale dont tous les textes sont inédits. Les meilleurs écrivains notamment les poètes du monde entier y auront publié au cours des 25 livraisons semestrielles éditées jusqu?en 1960. Livres.
More imagesTHE CASE AGAINST THE SATURDAY REVIEW OF LITERATURE [Inscribed to Bill Bird, Presumed by William Carlos Williams]
Adams, Leonie; Aiken, Conrad; Auden, W. H.; Bogan, Louise; Chapin, Katherine Garrison; Eliot, T. S.; Lowell, Robert; MacLeish, Archibald; Porter, Katherine Anne; Shapiro, Karl; Tate, Allen; Thorp, Willard; Warren, Robert Penn; Williams, William Carlos; . et al.
Published by The Modern Poetry Association, Chicago 1949
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- First Edition
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Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.Second Story Books, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerSoftcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, vi, 71 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Covers are red paper with white lettering and decorations, moderately age toned with staple binding. Rubbing wear along edges of covers, along spine, at ends of spine, and at corners. Front cover shows several faint stains. Text block s…hows some scuffing and foxing on the edges, and is lightly age toned throughout. Foxing sparsely present throughout. Dated "11/21/49" and inscribed in black ink on half title page: "Bill Bird - an "old hand" at all this. / Best / Bill". Inscription appears to be in the hand of William Carlos Williams, signing here as "Bill". Instances of Williams singing as "Bill" are extremely scarce, and was typically reserved for the signing of letters, very rarely used in book inscriptions. Williams had published one of his novels - The Great American Novel - through Bird's Three Mountains Press in 1923. This inscription's date nearly 30 years later, combined with Williams signing under the nickname "Bill", evidences a long and familiar relationship between the two men. Housed in a card-backed archival sleeve. SH Consignment. Shelved in Room A. . Bill Bird was an American publisher best known for running the Three Mountains Press, a small press that published many prominent modernists in the 1920s including Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon, with Ezra Pound serving as editor. Over a period of two and a half years he published 9 works. Concurrently he founded Consolidated Press Service and worked there as a journalist from 1920-1933, when he joined the New York Sun as chief foreign correspondent. Forced to flee France after the Nazi invasion, he wrote articles warning of war. After WWII he moved to Tangier and was the editor of the Tangier Gazette. . 1403705. Special Collections.
THE FREE COMPANY PRESENTS A COLLECTION OF PLAYS ABOUT THE MEANING OF AMERICA
ANTHOLOGY Maxwell Anderson, Sherwood Anderson, Stephen Vincent Benet, James Boyd, Marc Connelly, Paul Green, Archibald Macleish, William Saroyan, Robert E. Sherwood & Orson Welles
Published by Dodd Mead 1941
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Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979
Contact seller4-star sellerFirst Edition. THE FREE COMPANY PRESENTS A COLLECTION OF PLAYS ABOUT THE MEANING OF AMERICA, Dodd Mead, 1941, first edition, fine in vg dust-wrapper with some chipping to the head of the dust-wrapper spine. A collection of original radio plays that were broadcast and now put into book form by Maxwell Anderson, Sherwood Anderson,… Stephen Vincent Benet, James Boyd, Marc Connelly, Paul Green, Archibald Macleish, William Saroyan, Robert E. Sherwood & Orson Welles. Curiously uncommon.
Published by 27 February 1978 and 4 March 1978, Hamden, CT 1978
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Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB
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Letters. Condition: Near Fine. Two handwritten two-page letters on both sides of an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet SIGNED "Robert" to MacLeish along with a page of notes handwritten in pencil by MacLeish and a small card in pencil and ink written by MacLeish. The notes refer to consciousness with MacLeish mentioning HAMLET and Beethoven: "W…orks of art not only suggest consciousness in others, they demonstrate it." Fitzgerald's letters are about his famous translation of the THE ODYSSEY and MacLeish's reaction to it as well as identification of Homer with his hero Odysseus, and in context is surely a response to a query by MacLeish regarding one line in the poem. In part: "The thing is that in the poem Homer identifies himself with Odysseus who famously knew the world. He endows his hero with his own powers. Alkinoös thus observes that these powers belong to a man who knows the world. The dramatic CONTEXT makes my rendering a true rendering. I hope this leaves it less obscure. I believe it's true, too." Fitzgerald goes into more detail, but this is most pertinent to what MacLeish has written on the small card: "Robert Fitzgerald and 'a poet -- a man who knows the world.'" In an article by poet Donald Hall titled "Visiting the MacLeishes" in THE NEW YORK TIMES on 9 July 1978, a few months after Fitzgerald's letters, MacLeish tells Hall how he read aloud Robert Fitzgerald's translation of THE ODYSSEY to his wife Ada, and how he found a line that he had never seen before, a line translated differently by other translators. "In the 11th book, Odysseus tells his story to Alkinoös, who answers him saying that Odysseus has told his story, 'As a poet would, a man who knows the world.' MacLeish pauses to let the line sink in. He shakes his head. 'These are the words that needed for years. Who does know the world? Not the businessman. Not the scientist. Yes Shakespeare, Homer, Dante. This is what makes greatness in a poet: to know the world.'".
