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Dedication and Foreword
6:20 -
The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun
21:31 -
Rain after a Vaudeville Show
2:25 -
The City Revisited
3:04 -
Going Back to School
2:18 -
Nos Immortales
1:24 -
Young Blood
3:14 -
The Quality of Courage
8:42 -
Campus Sonnets: 1) Before an Examination, 2) Talk, 3) May Morning, 4) Return -- 1917
4:13 -
Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua
3:25 -
The Breaking Point
2:12 -
Lonely Burial
1:29 -
Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room
1:37 -
The Hemp
8:53 -
Poor Devil!
2:08 -
Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum
1:37 -
The White Peacock
8:11
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A dedication recalling childhood heroes introduces Stephen Vincent Benét's 1918 collection of American verse. The opening poem moves from the glowing jars of a shop to a tale of a fisherman who releases a formidable genie. Rich colours, changing rhythms and a song within the story give this imagined encounter its shape. The contents also range across school, city life, music, landscapes and portraits of children.
The middle excerpt shows a sharper dramatic voice at a lavish meal hosted by Alexander VI, where talk of art and hospitality carries a dangerous undertone. In another poem, a speaker wrestles with temptation and the doubts that follow a hard struggle. Chauncey Brewster Tinker's foreword argues for melody, beauty and continuity with earlier poetry. Readers interested in how narrative verse and personal reflection sit together can find both modes in this early collection.
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- Author
- Stephen Vincent Benét
- Pages
- 108
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Poetry
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