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    Young Adventure, a Book of Poems
    Young Adventure, a Book of Poems
    Young Adventure, a Book of Poems
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    Young Adventure, a Book of Poems

    By Stephen Vincent Benét

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    This early work by Stephen Vincent Benét was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Young Adventure, a Book of Poems' is a collection of poetry, including 'Young Blood', 'The Quality of Courage', 'Lonely Burial', and many more. Stephen Vincent Benét was born on 22nd July 1898 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. Benét was an accomplished writer at an early age, having had his first book published at 17 and submitting his third volume of poetry in lieu of a thesis for his degree. During his time at Yale, he was an influential figure at the 'Yale Lit' literary magazine, and a fellow member of the Elizabethan Club. Benét was also a part-time contributor for the early Time Magazine. Benét's best known works are the book-length narrative poem American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and two short stories, The Devil and Daniel Webster (1936) and By the Waters of Babylon (1937). Benét won a second Pulitzer Prize posthumously for his unfinished poem Western Star in 1944.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhite Press
    Release dateApr 24, 2015
    ISBN9781473374119

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      Young Adventure, a Book of Poems - Stephen Vincent Benét

      YOUNG ADVENTURE

      A Book of Poems

      by

      Stephen Vincent Benet

      Copyright © 2013 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be

      reproduced or copied in any way without

      the express permission of the publisher in writing

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Contents

      Stephen Vincent Benét

      Foreword by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

      I. The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun

      The Song.

      II. Miscellaneous.

      Rain after a Vaudeville Show

      The City Revisited

      Going Back to School

      Nos Immortales

      Young Blood

      The Quality of Courage

      Campus Sonnets:

      Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua

      The Breaking Point

      Lonely Burial

      Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room

      The Hemp

      Poor Devil!

      Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum

      The White Peacock

      Colors

      A Minor Poet

      The Lover in Hell

      Winged Man

      Music

      The Innovator

      Love in Twilight

      The Fiddling Wood

      Portrait of a Boy

      Portrait of a Baby

      The General Public

      Road and Hills

      Elegy for an Enemy

      Biographical Note:

      Stephen Vincent Benét

      Stephen Vincent Benét was born on 22nd July 1898 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States.

      Benét was sent to the Hitchcock Military Academy at the age of ten and then continued his education at The Albany Academy in New York. He also attended Yale University where he received his M.A. in English.

      Benét was an accomplished writer at an early age, having had his first book published at 17 and submitting his third volume of poetry in lieu of a thesis for his degree. During his time at Yale, he was an influential figure at the ‘Yale Lit’ literary magazine, and a fellow member of the Elizabethan Club. Benét was also a part-time contributor for the early Time Magazine.

      Benét’s involvement with the University literary scene led to a decade-long judgeship of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. He is also responsible for publishing the first volumes of work by authors such as James Agee, Muriel Rukeyser, Jeremy Ingalls, and Margaret Walker. In 1931, he was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts ad Sciences.

      Benét’s best known works are the book-length narrative poem American Civil War, John Brown’s Body (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and two short stories, The Devil and Daniel Webster (1936) and By the Waters of Babylon (1937). Benét won a second Pulitzer Prize posthumously for his unfinished poem Western Star in 1944.

      Stephen Vincent Benét died of a heart attack in New York City, on 13th March, 1943, and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Stonington, Conneticut.

      To W. R. B.

      Dedication

      And so, to you, who always were

      Perseus, D’Artagnan, Lancelot

      To me, I give these weedy rhymes

      In memory of earlier times.

      Now all those careless days are not.

      Of all my heroes, you endure.

      Words are such silly things! too rough,

      Too smooth, they boil up or congeal,

      And neither of us likes emotion —

      But I can’t measure my devotion!

      And you know how I really feel —

      And we’re together. There, enough,...!

      Foreword by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

      In these days when the old civilisation is crumbling beneath our feet, the thought of poetry crosses the mind like the dear memory of things that have long since passed away. In our passionate desire for the new era, it is difficult to refrain oneself from the commonplace practice of speculating on the effects of warfare and of prophesying all manner of novel rebirths. But it may be well for us to remember that the era which has recently closed was itself marked by a mad idealisation of all novelties. In the literary movements of the last decade —when, indeed, any movement at all has been perceptible — we have witnessed a bewildering rise and fall of methods and ideals. We were captivated for a time by the quest of the golden phrase and the accompanying cultivation of exotic emotions; and then, wearying of the pretty and the temperamental, we plunged into the bloodshot brutalities of naturalism.

      From the smooth-flowing imitations of Tennyson and Swinburne, we passed into a false freedom that had at its heart a repudiation of all law and standards, for a parallel to which one turns

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