And here face down beneath the sun And here upon earth's noonward height To feel the always coming on The always rising of the night

Archibald MacLeish. ” The main Republican arguments against MacLeish’s nomination from within Congress was: that he was a poet and was a “fellow traveler” or sympathetic to communist causes. In this case Huntington wanted the poet Joseph Auslander to be named to the position.

He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry.