Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benet - Volume One Poetry - 1942 Farrar & Rinehart - Hardcover online [Near Fine]

Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benet - Volume One Poetry - 1942 Farrar & Rinehart - Hardcover [Near Fine]

Volume one of a two part set, this is a lovely edition with black cloth boards and gilt titling. Beautiful paper, formatting, and fonts.
Published by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. 1942. 487 pages.

Near Fine Condition. There is light wear to the cover and very tiny corner bumps.

Benét was successful in many different literary forms, which included novels, short stories, screenplays, radio broadcasts, and a libretto for an opera by Douglas Moore based on "The Devil and Daniel Webster." His most famous work is the long poem John Brown's Body for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1929—a long narrative poem which interweaves historical and fictional characters to relate important events in the Civil War, from the raid on Harper's Ferry to online Lee's surrender at Appomattox. During his lifetime, Benét also received the O. Henry Story Prize, the Roosevelt Medal, and a second Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for the posthumously-published Western Star, the first part of an epic poem based on American history. At the age of 44, Benét suffered a heart attack and died on March 13, 1943, in New York City.

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