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William Rose Benet, the distinguished American poet and author, will read from his poems and comment on them tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Sever 11. Benet graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1907, receiving an honorary degree of Master of Arts from Yale University...
With Christopher Morley he founded the Saturday Review of Literature in 1924. Benet won the National Play-wrighting Award for his play, "Day's End," produced in 1939, and in 1942 he earned the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His recently published work includes "American Ballads" and the narrative poem, "The Dust Which...
Last spring Thomas Lamont and William Rose Benet filled the pages of The Saturday Review of Literature trying to define a capitalist. Last month, as an off shoot of that quarrel, Mr. Lamont contributed What a Capitalist Reads, a list of 14 books he had read during the summer, following his doctor's order to "take things more easily." The most topical, with Mr. Lamont's critical observations...
...write this fully realizing that a man's worth is not gauged by the length of his obituary, yet I could not help but notice that in its March 22 issue, TIME devoted 292 lines to the passing of John Pierpont Morgan while it squeezed Stephen Vincent Benet into a mere...
...will tell me, of course, that Morgan was bigger news than Benet, and that a newsmagazine prints the news. Yet I think that America and American journalism would do itself proud if it would listen now & then to its poets...