History of stephen vincent benet
History of stephen vincent benet
Stephen vincent benet poetry.
The Way We Were: Benet took the past and turned it into prose
There are not many Augustans featured on a U.S. postage stamp.
There are not many Augustans who won the Pulitzer Prize.
Twice.
There are not many Augustans who came from military families, but were limited from combat by poor eyesight … so they served instead as a crack codebreaker.
That’s because there’s only one Stephen Vincent Benet.
Born in , Benet was considered one of America’s great writers in the s, ’30s and ’40s.
He wrote poetry, fiction, short stories, screen plays and radio scripts.
He did all that in a very short life before dying of a heart attack in
His second Pulitzer was awarded posthumously for a poem that was incomplete.
To be honored so highly for a work that wasn’t even finished, you have to be pretty well thought of, and Benet certainly was.
His grand themes of American expansion, patriotism and popular myths, are perhaps considered outdated today, but in his day, he was a literary rock st