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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...
...Benet is one of the most promising of the younger school of writers, and his best known work, "John Brown's Body", had an unusually large first edition, totalling 65,000 volumes...
Last fall, "John Brown's Body" was published. To accomplish this work, Mr. Benet lived in the South of France on a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, which enabled him to devote most of his time to the writing of the book, without being disturbed by financial worry...
...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...