Poetry · 1918
Young Adventure
A Book of Poems
Nearly thirty poems of youth, restlessness, and city and campus life, ranging from wry vignettes of modern American scenes to a sequence of narrative "Campus Sonnets" and poems reaching back to classical and Renaissance history for their subjects.
Stephen Vincent Benét published Young Adventure in 1918 at twenty, his first mature collection and the book that established him, a decade before his Pulitzer Prize-winning John Brown's Body, as a serious new voice in American poetry.
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Contents
- Dedication
- Dedication
- Foreword by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
- Prefatory Note
- Rain after a Vaudeville Show
- The City Revisited
- Going Back to School
- Nos Immortales
- Young Blood
- The Quality of Courage
- Campus Sonnets:
- Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua
- The Breaking Point
- Lonely Burial
- Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room
- The Hemp
- Poor Devil!
- Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum
- The White Peacock
- Colors
- A Minor Poet
- The Lover in Hell
- Winged Man
- Music
- The Innovator
- Love in Twilight
- The Fiddling Wood
- Portrait of a Boy
- Portrait of a Baby
- The General Public
- Road and Hills
- Elegy for an Enemy
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1898–1943 · Modern
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, into an Army family, and published his first poetry collection, Young Adventure, in 1918 at twenty. He is best remembered for John Brown's Body (1928), a book-length narrative poem on the Civil War that won the Pulitzer Prize, and for the widely anthologized short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1936); a second Pulitzer, for the poem Western Star, was awarded after his death. He died in New York City at forty-four.
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