Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American author, poet, short story writer and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "By the Waters of Babylon".
It was a line of Benet's poetry that gave the title to Dee Brown's famous history of the destruction of Native American tribes by the United States: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. (Summary excerpted from Wikipedia)
This recording includes the Dedication, Foreword and first 16 poems from Young Adventure, A Book of Poems.
It was a line of Benet's poetry that gave the title to Dee Brown's famous history of the destruction of Native American tribes by the United States: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. (Summary excerpted from Wikipedia)
This recording includes the Dedication, Foreword and first 16 poems from Young Adventure, A Book of Poems.
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Dedication and Foreword
06:20 - Chapter 2
The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun
21:31 - Chapter 3
Rain after a Vaudeville Show
02:25 - Chapter 4
The City Revisited
03:04 - Chapter 5
Going Back to School
02:18 - Chapter 6
Nos Immortales
01:24 - Chapter 7
Young Blood
03:14 - Chapter 8
The Quality of Courage
08:42 - Chapter 9
Campus Sonnets: 1) Before an Examination, 2) Talk, 3) May Morning, 4) Return -- 1917
04:13 - Chapter 10
Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua
03:25 - Chapter 11
The Breaking Point
02:12 - Chapter 12
Lonely Burial
01:29 - Chapter 13
Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room
01:37 - Chapter 14
The Hemp
08:53 - Chapter 15
Poor Devil!
02:08 - Chapter 16
Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum
01:37 - Chapter 17
The White Peacock
08:11