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Young Adventure

A Book of Poems

by Stephen Vincent Benét

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First published
1918
Pages
108
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Read by Bryan Ness · 1 h 22 min · 17 parts

  1. Dedication and Foreword

    6:20

  2. The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun

    21:31

  3. Rain after a Vaudeville Show

    2:25

  4. The City Revisited

    3:04

  5. Going Back to School

    2:18

  6. Nos Immortales

    1:24

  7. Young Blood

    3:14

  8. The Quality of Courage

    8:42

  9. Campus Sonnets: 1) Before an Examination, 2) Talk, 3) May Morning, 4) Return -- 1917

    4:13

  10. Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua

    3:25

  11. The Breaking Point

    2:12

  12. Lonely Burial

    1:29

  13. Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room

    1:37

  14. The Hemp

    8:53

  15. Poor Devil!

    2:08

  16. Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum

    1:37

  17. 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.

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Stephen Vincent Benét

Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943) was an American poet and storyteller whose work drew deeply on his country's history and folklore. Besides the Pulitzer-winning 'John Brown's Body,' he wrote the famous short story 'The Devil and Daniel Webster.' He won a second Pulitzer, awarded posthumously, for the unfinished 'Western Star.'

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Book facts

First published
1918
Reading time
About 1 hour
Pages
108
Language
English
Genre
Poetry
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Bryan Ness