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Young Adventure A Book of Poems

Stephen Vincent Benét

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Publisher: LibriVox

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Summary

Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American author, poet, short story writer and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "By the Waters of Babylon".It was a line of Benet's poetry that gave the title to Dee Brown's famous history of the destruction of Native American tribes by the United States: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. (Summary excerpted from Wikipedia)This recording includes the Dedication, Foreword and first 16 poems from Young Adventure, A Book of Poems.
Duration: about 1 hour (01:22:54)
Publishing date: 2014-08-25; Copyright Year: 1918. Copyright Statment: —