Benét, Stephen Vincent
Benét, Stephen Vincent( 1889–1943),brother of W.R. Benét, was born in Pennsylvania, and graduated from Yale (1919). As an undergraduate he wrote two books of poetry, Five Men and Pompey (1915), dramatic monologues, and Young Adventure (1918); shortly after graduation he wrote his first novel, The Beginning of Wisdom (1921), a college story in the vein of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The poems in Heavens and Earth (1920), King David (1923), The Ballad of William Sycamore (1923), and Tiger Joy (1925) show a growing maturity, and the Ballad particularly indicates his interest in the American scene. He reached his full power with John Brown's Body (1928, Pulitzer Prize), a long narrative poem of the Civil War. His Ballads and Poems, 1915–30 were collected in 1931. Nightmare at Noon (1940) is a poem warning the U.S. to meet the fascist challenge. Western Star (1943, Pulitzer...
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