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| | AllRefer.com - Stephen Vincent BenEt (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
 | | Stephen Vincent BenEt[benA´] Pronunciation Key, 18981943, American poet and author, b. |
 | | After graduating from college, BenEt published several volumes of verse, including A Ballad of William Sycamore (1923), and several novels, of which Jean Huguenot (1923) and The Spanish Bayonet (1926) are the best. |
 | | He is most famous for John Brown's Body (1928), a long narrative poem of the Civil War (Pulitzer Prize, 1929), and his short story, "The Devil and Daniel Webster." Western Star, a long narrative poem about the westward migration left unfinished at his death, was published in 1943 (Pulitzer Prize, 1944). |
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