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  The Poetry of Stephen Vincent Benét

  Stephen Vincent Benét

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  Benét was born on 22nd July in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His father was a serving Army colonel and his first decade dictated that family life and education was centered at the base his father was serving from.  
   
  From ten it became a little more stable when he was dispatched for a traumatic year to the Hitchcock Military Academy in San Rafael, California before graduating from the Summerville Academy in Augusta, Georgia and thence to Yale University, at age 17, where he quickly established himself in its deep literary traditions.  He edited as well as contributed a selection of light verse to the campus humor magazine, The Yale Record, and gave freely and generously of his time thereafter to keep Yale producing new literary talents.  
   
  Prodigiously his first book was published at 17 and for he obtained his M.A. in English when he submitted a poetry volume as his thesis. 
   
  Whilst travelling in France, in the early 20s, he met and quickly married a fellow writer and poet, Rosemary Carr.  She would also collaborate with him on several works.  In Paris he wrote the book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War ‘John Brown's Body’, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. 
   
  Benét was immensely gifted. A mere glance at his literary CV dazzles with literary gems.  Some of his poems seem to foretell both the rise of machines and of Fascism.  He won the O’Henry Award on three occasions, for his short stories as well as an incredible four Pulitzers; two for poetry and two for short stories.  Add in his several novels, speech-writing, radio scripts and various other pursuits and you have some measure of the man.  
   
  In 1930, Benét was hit with debilitating attacks of arthritis of the spine which made the rest of his life one of much pain and discomfort. 
   
  Stephen Vincent Benét died in his wife’s arms on 13th March 1943 of a heart attack in New York City. He was 44.  
   
  He was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for Western Star, an ambitious and projected five, six or nine book narrative poem (there are various accounts of its projected length) on the settling of the United States, for which he only finished the first book. 
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  1 - The Poetry of Stephen Vincent Benét - An Introduction 
  2 - A Minor Poet by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  3 - Difference by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  4 - Music by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  5 - The Quality of Courage by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  6 - Love in Twilight by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  7 - The Lover in Hell by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  8 - Breaking Point by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  9 - Nightmare Number 3 by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  10 - The Innovator by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  11 - For City Lovers by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  12 - The City Revisited by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  13 - Rain After A Vaudeville Show by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  14 - Minor Litany by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  15 - Days Pass, Men Pass by by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  16 - For All Blasphemers by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  17 - Poor Devil! by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  18 - Judgement by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  19 - Lonely Burial by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  20 - Litany for Dictatorships by Stephen Vinvcent Benét 
  21 - The Hemp by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  22 - Colors by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  23 - Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  24 - Portrait of a Baby by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  25 - Portrait of a Boy by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  26 - Campus Sonnets by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  27 - Elegy For An Enemy by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  28 - Architects by Stephen Vincent Benét

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  Tales from Shakespeare: Romeo...

  Mary Lamb, Charles Lamb

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  Brother and sister team Charles and Mary Lamb originally wrote these stories for children in 1807, based on Shakespeare's most famous plays. Here is their version of Romeo and Juliet.

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  The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd -...

  D. H. Lawrence

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  The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding. Lawrence's second play, written in 1910 but unpublished until 1914, is an intense and powerful drama in the naturalist tradition, set in a Nottinghamshire mining town. This edition includes an introduction by Colin Counsell, a glossary of difficult words, a chronology and suggestions for further reading.

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  Short Poetry Collection 056

  Various Various

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  LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 056: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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  Short Poetry Collection 094

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of poems recorded by LibriVox volunteers for the month of January 2011.

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  Mud (NHB Modern Plays)

  Robert Holman

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  'Stagnant. It's stagnant. Seen more life in a dead rabbit.'
  A group of lonely people converge on the North Yorkshire moors.
  George, recently retired and grieving for his wife, has come on holiday to fish. Harold, son of the local squire, has come to shoot. Alan and Pauline have come to escape prying eyes.
  Hopes, dreams and fears play out in a Beckettian landscape as RAF fighter planes tear across the sky.
  Robert Holman's play Mud was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in August 1974 under the title Taking Stock.

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