Stephen Vincent Benet
Only in a time when the pressure of the world amounts to angst and the
fight for freedom can a world advance in it's literary achievements. A writer,
just like an artist, builds his creations from the mood and settings of the
surrounding atmosphere. In the first half of the twentieth century, the
atmosphere was filled with resources to stimulate literary creativity, such as
the second World War and the Great Depression (Roache 102: 14). The social
genre of the time gave way to the broad appeal to American life and the focus of
freedom leading to original stories and historical themes (Folsom 3: 953). Of
course, the past would remain a constant influence. Some common topics were the
Civil ...
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of July 1898 (Roache 102: 11, 13). He described himself as a
positive-thinking and modest man, who is thin, attractive, vivacious, whereas
his wife and his mother-in-law would consider him a plain, tall, large biter-of-
nails who carries a foolish expression, but whose intellect is too much for
words (Parsekian 1).
He couldn't have been too foolish of a person due to his positive
upbringing. Benet's parents planned for him to be a success in whatever he chose
to do. Their open-mindedness encouraged him to explore books and ideas in a
professional state., as well as to appreciate and take literature and history
very seriously (Roache 102: 13). Because of this upbringing, all three Benet
children became poets and authors. (Stephen Vincent Benet was the youngest of
them.) Much influence over the Benets came from love for the country because
James' military work called for traveling between Georgia, California, Illinois,
New York, and Pennsylvania (Griffith 11).
Benet's ...
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editorial jobs
include reviewing for the New York Herald Tribune and the Saturday Review of
Literature, and the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 1933 (Magill 1:
71). In 1945, Benet published a collection of radio scripts called We Stand
United, and Other Radio Scripts as a propagandistic war effort that he felt was
his destiny (Magill 1: 170).
Another destiny was marriage. He married Rosemary Carr on November 26,
1921 through the fellowship to Paris in 1920. They started living in Chicago,
then Paris, Hollywood, and New York (Roache 102: 13). She was an unpretentious
only child who never said mean things to anyone (Parsekian 1). She gave him
three children: Stephani Jane ...
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