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BALLADS AND POEMS - Stephen Vincent Benet - Double day, Doran...
...poets have become bestsellers, but Stephen Vincent Benet turned the trick when he wrote John Brown's Body (1928). His is a Muse of a straightforward, dramatic kind, at her best in balladish vein. Into this book Poet Benet has collected his favorites from three earlier, out-of-print volumes and has added some new ones. Only a Benet enthusiast would call this book first-class, but almost anyone would grant its readability, its occasional bursts of exciting phrases...
Primarily a lyrical balladeer, Benet is not content to stick to one verse form, and occasionally makes some happy hits in other directions, as in this epitaph on a Greek Child...
...Author. Stephen Vincent Benet has no illusions about his own address on Mt. Parnassus. He calls himself a minor poet, says of himself: "I am but a shell,'' to be held against the ear to arouse a "dim, far whisper." Young (32), nearsighted, tall, stoop-shouldered, Poet Benet tried hard to get into the Army during...
...Steven Vincent Benet and 'John Brown's Body'," Dr. Carpenter, Sever...