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Selected works of Stephen Vincent Benét.

Benét, Stephen Vincent 1898-1943 (Author).

Summary: Selected works of Stephen Vincent Benét in two volumes. Volume one is poetry and volume two is prose.

Item details

Physical Description: print
2 volumes ; 22 cm
Publisher: New York : Farrar & Rinehart, 1942.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

Volume 1: -- Stephen Vincent Benét -- John Brown's body -- Young Adventure: -- Portrait of a boy -- Portrait of a baby -- Portrait of young love -- General public -- Young blood -- Breaking point -- Poor devil -- Golden corpse -- My Fair Lady: -- To Rosemary -- Chemical analysis -- Nomenclature -- Difference -- Sad song -- Nonsense song -- To Rosemary, on the methods by which she might become an angel -- Evening and morning -- In a glass of water before retiring -- Legend -- Dulce ridentem -- All night long -- Days pass: men pass -- Illa -- Hands -- Memory -- Ballads And Tales: -- American names -- Ballad of Wiliam Sycamore -- Hemp -- Mountain Whippoorwill -- King David -- Retort discourteous -- Three days' ride -- Alexander the Sixth dines with the Cardinal of Capua -- Southern ships and settlers -- Cotton Mather -- Captain Kidd -- French pioneers -- Thomas Jefferson -- John James Audubon -- Daniel Boone -- Western wagons -- Creatures Of Earth: -- Innovator -- Snowfall -- Bad dream -- For all blashphemers -- Architects -- Dinner in a quick lunch room -- Operation -- Trapeze performer -- Judgment -- Ghosts of a lunatic asylum -- For those who are as right as any -- Girl child -- Old man Hoppergrass -- Lost wife -- Sparrow -- Thanks -- Complaint of body, the ass, against his rider, the soul -- Nightmares And Visitants: -- Notes to be left in a cornerstone -- Short ode -- Litany for dictatorships -- Ode to the Austrian socialists -- Do you remember, Springfield? -- Ode to Walt Whitman -- Metropolitan nightmare -- Nightmare, with angels -- Nightmare number three -- 1936 -- For city spring -- For city lovers -- Nightmare for future reference -- Minor litany -- Nightmare at noon -- Listen to the people.

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