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Author Stephen Vincent Benét Litt...
SANFELICE-Vincent Sheean-Doubleday, Doran...
...Personal History Vincent Sheean wrote the autobiography of a 30-year-old newspaperman who had seen and participated in some of the most momentous events of the post-War period: the pacification of the Riff in Africa, the Chinese Revolution of 1927, the German Inflation, the Allied occupation of the Rhine. The book revealed a sensitive and searching intelligence that honestly faced the dominant political issues before the modern world, contained careful expositions of Communism and Revolution, gave a general impression of intelligent inconclusiveness, of dismay before the towering threats to contemporary society. Last week Vincent Sheean followed his best...
BURNING CITY-Stephen Vincent Benét -Farrar & Rinehart...
...hierarchy of contemporary U. S. poets, Stephen Vincent Benét stands somewhat ambiguously as a comparatively young (37) singer whose heavily emotional approach to national concerns is slightly preWar, like his verse forms. A singularly unpredictable performer, he has been able to turn from so broad a project as his John Brown's Body to slapdash popular verses in the worst tradition of James Whitcomb Riley. In Burning City the contradictory aspects of his talent are laid out as if for analysis and dissection...