Word: benet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stephen Vincent Benet, prominent among the young school of writers, will address an audience composed of members of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock in the main Living Room...
...Benet in his 'John Brown's Body' set for himself a major task, accomplished it, and found recognition. His technical skill, his enthusiasm for his material, and his narrative power, are combined in a poem which has had phenomenal and merited success. Mr. Robinson's 'Tristran' and Mr. Benet's 'John Brown's Body' have brought to good poetry unprecedented popular acclaim in this country--a fact which should be significant in our literary history...
Although his exact topic has not yet been announced, Mr. Benet will probably discuss modern literature in general...
...evening the Vagabond will try a sleight of hand trick to produce a Union card and then proceed to the Union Living Room where the author of "John Brown's Body", Stephen Vincent Benet, will talk on some aspects of modern writing...
...Benet comes from a family of literary artists. His father was a historian, and his older brother and sister are both poets and critics of distinction. A military tendency of his is probably also inherited, for his father, grandfather, and great grandfather were army officers. One of his cherished beliefs is that he is related to Black Pedro, the Mexican bandit...