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John Brown's Body (1928) is an American epic poem written by Stephen Vincent Benét. The poem's title references the radical abolitionist John Brown, who raided the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia in October 1859. He was captured and hanged later that year. Benét's poem covers the history of the American Civil War.
Stephen Vincent Benét (/ b ə ˈ n eɪ / bə-NAY; July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He wrote a book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body, published in 1928, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and for the short stories "The Devil and Daniel Webster", published in 1936, and "By the Waters of ...
John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benét (1928) The Fall of Arthur by J. R. R. Tolkien (composed c. 1930 –1934, published 2013) The Bridge by Hart Crane (1930) Ariadne by F. L. Lucas (1932) Kamayani by Jaishankar Prasad (1936) The People, Yes by Carl Sandburg (1936) In Parenthesis by David Jones (1937) Canto General by Pablo Neruda (1938 ...
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"The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1936) is a short story by American writer Stephen Vincent Benét. He tells of a New Hampshire farmer who sells his soul to the devil and is later defended by a fictionalized Daniel Webster, a noted 19th-century American statesman, lawyer and orator. The narrative references real events in the lives of Webster and ...
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