Word: browne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...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 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...
Score--Yale 13, Touchdowns--Crowley 2, Point after touchdown--Sargent. Referee--Swafield, Brown. Umpire--A. R. Lake, Lafayette. Head linesman--T. F. Scanlon, Boston College. Field Jadge--J. S. Norton, St. Johns, Time--four 15-minute periods...