1921. Stephen Vincent Benet, poet, novelist, and short-story writer. His Pulitzer Prize-winning poem John Brown's Body is still considered the quintessential American war poem. The autobiographical The Beginning of Wisdom is his first novel. Partial Contents: Prologue to Phillip; Parabalou!; Frankie and Johnny were Lovers; Cold Mountains; Amateur Theatricals; The Tinsel Heaven-A Dream; Terra Firma; and The Fear of the Lord.
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STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT (1898-1943) was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. A prolific poet, novelist, and writer of short stories, he is best known as the 1929 Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the epic Civil War poem "John Brown's Body" and the short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster." He was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1929 and to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1938. He won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for Western Star, a volume of verse.
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THE only sound in the big front room is the faint growling of the bright coal fire as it chars to the ruddiness of a winter apple behind the three black bars of its grate. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Esteban, Major Stelly, Miss Hollis, San Francisco, Honest Louis, Jenny Argyle, New Haven, New York, Bill Arbroath, Los Angeles, Phil Sellaby, Skinny Singleton, Elgar Hay, John Castine, Miss Argyle, Aunt Agatha, Bud Egan, Daisy Dilley, Dick Sheldon, Frickett Junction, Sour Scattergood, Big Dick, Brick Bennett, Mac Gregory, Piers Plowman New!
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THE only sound in the big front room is the faint growling of the bright coal fire as it chars to the ruddiness of a winter apple behind the three black bars of its grate. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Esteban, Major Stelly, Miss Hollis, San Francisco, Honest Louis, Jenny Argyle, New Haven, New York, Bill Arbroath, Los Angeles, Phil Sellaby, Skinny Singleton, Elgar Hay, John Castine, Miss Argyle, Aunt Agatha, Bud Egan, Daisy Dilley, Dick Sheldon, Frickett Junction, Sour Scattergood, Big Dick, Brick Bennett, Mac Gregory, Piers Plowman New!
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- Life of Johnson, V2 by Boswell on page 156
- The Little Sister by James Street on page 130
- Piers Plowman (Norton Critical Editions) by William Langland on page 348
- A Shropshire Lad (Dover Thrift Editions) by A. E. Housman on page 345
- Poetry First a Shropshire Lad (Penguin Classics: Poetry First) by A E Housman on page 345
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- Definitions by Henry Seidel Canby on page 59, and page 80
- Stories for Men: An Anthology by Charles Grayson on page 20
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