Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre (July 16, 1890 - June 30, 1967) is an American

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, known for his poetry and translations of Baudelaire,

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, George,

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and Rilke. His work appeared in ''The Nation'', and ''Harper's''.

Biography

He was born on July 16, 1890, in

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. He graduated from

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, and received his doctorate in

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. He taught at Los Angeles Polytechnic High School,

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in Los Angeles,

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, and

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. He spent 1938 in Europe on a

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, working on a translation of Goethe's ''Faust''. A book of poems, ''Cafés and Cathedrals'' ensued and was published in 1939. ''Faust Part 1'' appeared in 1941, but publication negotiations for Part 2 collapsed, and the manuscript remains in a box at UCLA's Young Research Library. The poem "Detail on a Street Corner in Herculaneum", from "Cafés", resulted in MacIntyre being transferred from UCLA to Berkeley. MacIntyre was awarded

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s in 1948 and 1953 to continue work on his translations of the above-mentioned authors. He lived in Paris, Mexico, Germany, and France from 1955 to 1967. He lived his later years in

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. He suffered an incapacitating stroke in 1960. He died on June 30, 1967, in

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Legacy

His papers are held at UCLA.

Selected works

*''Faust'', Part I, 1941 *''Cafés and Cathedrals'', 1939 *''The Black Bull: Poems'', 1942 *''Tiger of Time'',: And other poems by Robert Payne and C. F. MacIntyre 1965 *''MacIntyre: poems'' 1975 *''October Songs'' 1982 *''French Symbolist Poetry'', 50th Anniversary Edition, 2007

References

External links

* 1890 births 1967 deaths 20th-century American poets University of Southern California alumni {{US-poet-1890s-stub