Young Adventure: A Book of Poems

by Stephen Vincent Benét from 1918

About

Benét's early collection shows the romantic exuberance of a gifted young poet before the gravity of his later work. Known best for 'John Brown's Body' and 'The Devil and Daniel Webster,' Benét here displays his gift for narrative energy and lyric beauty in shorter forms. Young Adventure established him as a significant voice in American poetry of the 1920s.

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Young Adventure: A Book of Poems

Words: 14.3k
Duration: ~1 hr 47 min

32 sections

14.3k words

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1

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1130:51

2

Dedication

750:34

3

Foreword by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

7875:54

4

Rain after a Vaudeville Show

940:42

5

Elegy for an Enemy

3.1k23:17

6

Rain after a Vaudeville Show

2431:49

7

The City Revisited

3712:47

8

Going Back to School

2561:55

9

Nos Immortales

1160:52

10

Young Blood

3852:53

11

The Quality of Courage

1.2k9:00

Campus Sonnets

12

Campus Sonnets:

4973:44

13

Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua

4133:06

14

The Breaking Point

2251:41

15

Lonely Burial

1130:51

16

Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room

1080:49

17

The Hemp

1.2k8:58

18

Poor Devil!

1961:28

19

Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum

1381:02

20

The White Peacock

9447:05

21

Colors

1200:54

22

A Minor Poet

1100:50

23

The Lover in Hell

4813:36

24

Winged Man

6144:36

25

The Innovator

1310:59

26

Love in Twilight

2111:35

27

The Fiddling Wood

4463:21

28

Portrait of a Boy

1891:25

29

Portrait of a Baby

3502:38

30

The General Public

3492:37

31

Road and Hills

3222:25

32

Elegy for an Enemy

3772:50

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