Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre

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"Mac" Macintyre, Paris, 1956

Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre (1890-1967) is known for his poetry and translations of Baudelaire, Verlaine, George, Goethe and Rilke. He graduated from USC, and received his doctorate in Marburg, Germany. He taught at Occidental College in Los Angeles, UCLA, and UC Berkeley. He spent 1938 in Europe on a Guggenheim Fellowship, 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 ms. remains in a box at UCLA's Young Research Library. "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. He lived in Paris, Mexico, Germany, and France (1955-67). He lived his later years in Paris, France. He suffered an incapacitating stroke in 1960 and died in Stuttgart, Germany on June 30, 1967.[1]