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...never had these so called "fools". A study of historical progress might seem then, according to this thesis, a study of fools in chronological order beginning with Socrates and following through with Erasmus, Copernicus, Bruno, Sir Thomas Moore, Tolstoy, Darwin, and last, but tritely enough, not least, Stephen Vincent Benet...
This narrative poem has an indescribable esprit which savors of an epic tempered by modern interpretation. If one can get through the rather vague invocation, the remainder of the poem really pulls one on. Stephen Benet has charmingly combined a uniquely modern and sincere patriotism with an equally rare sense of proportion. Yet throughout the course of events which he vividly depicts--here in minute detail--there is sweeping epic style--and here again with a touch of human sympathy--one finds that justice has been a main chord. South and North, each has its turn--probably the reason both...
Stephen Vincent Benet, U. S. poet and novelist, arrived in the second class cabin of the Ile de France, delighted with the heavy sales of his 80,000-word cycloramic epic of the Civil War, John Brown's Body (chosen by the Book of the Month Club for August). Said he, "I was not sure that it was a grand poem. I had worked over it for so long I felt I had given birth to a piano...
...What America needs is a good five cent cigar"-and not till now has it had an adequate story or poem of the Civil War (aside from Walt Whitman's Lincoln). Yet, the Civil War surpasses in colorful drama any other episode in U. S. history, and Poet Benet proves it so. Delving into that not quite forgotten past, he reproduces atmosphere and currents of passion. Through 377 pages of close-packed verse, his rhythm is pompous for matters of state, simple for poignant stories of lovers and "Hiders" and deserters, cadenced for darky
...poem, The Wings of Lead, pointing, in lines that have a bright startling thread of childish ingenuity drawn through them, to ". . . The beauty of a courage that can raise the wings of lead." Second prize went to Poet Thomas Hornsby Ferril, third to Poet Babette Deutsch. Poet W. R. Benet's Lindbergh is adroit and satisfactory. The other poems vary from slightly above the mediocre to the incredibly poor...