A Guide to the Archibald MacLeish Letter, n.y.
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Clifton Waller Barrett Library
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 6898-g
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Archibald MacLeish Letter, Accession # 6898-g, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
This item was purchased from Wilder Books on 11 January 1988.
Scope and Content Information
In this letter to John Norbutt, Archibald MacLeish provides three criteria for what makes a poem "lastingly important."