Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre (1890 Des Moines, Iowa

Des Moines, Iowa

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 – June 30, 1967 Stuttgart, Germany) is an American poet

Poet

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, known for his poetry and translations of Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire was a French poet who produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the nineteenth century...

, Verlaine

Paul Verlaine

Paul-Marie Verlaine was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.-Early life:...

, George

Stefan George

Stefan Anton George was a German poet, editor, and translator.-Biography:George was born in Bingen in Germany in 1868. He spent time in Paris, where he was among the writers and artists who attended the Tuesday soireés held by the poet Stéphane Mallarmé. He began to publish poetry in the 1890s,...

, Goethe and Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke , better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian–Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language...

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He graduated from University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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, and received his doctorate in Marburg

Marburg

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, Germany

Germany

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. He taught at Los Angeles Polytechnic High School, Occidental College

Occidental College

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 in Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

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, and University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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. He spent 1938 in Europe on a Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

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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 Fulbright Fellowships in 1948 and 1953 to continue work on his translations of the above mentioned authors.

His work appeared in The Nation, and Harper's.
He lived in Paris, Mexico, Germany, and France from 1955 to 1967. He lived his later years in Paris

Paris

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, France

France

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. He suffered an incapacitating stroke in 1960.

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