Stephen Vincent Benét

Stephen Vincent Benét nello Yale College BA, 1919

Stephen Vincent Benét (Bethlehem, 22 luglio 1898 – New York, 13 marzo 1943) è stato un poeta e scrittore statunitense. È conosciuto per il suo poema epico sulla Guerra di secessione americana John Brown's Body (1928), grazie al quale vinse il Premio Pulitzer per la poesia nel 1929, e per i racconti The Devil and Daniel Webster e By the Waters of Babylon.

Opere scelte

• Five Men and Pompey, 1915
• The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun, 1917
• Young Adventure, 1918
• Heavens and Earth, 1920
• The Beginnings of Wisdom, 1921
• Young People's Pride, 1922
• Jean Huguenot, 1923
• The Ballad of William Sycamore, 1923
• King David, 1923
• Nerves, 1924 (con John Farrar)
• That Awful Mrs. Eaton, 1924 (con John Farrar)
• Tiger Joy, 1925
• The Mountain Whippoorwill: How Hill-Billy Jim Won the Great Fiddler's Prize, 1925
• Spanish Bayonet, 1926
• John Brown's Body, 1928
• The Barefoot Saint, 1929
• The Litter of Rose Leaves, 1930
• Abraham Lincoln, 1930
• Ballads and Poems, 1915–1930, 1931
• A Book of Americans, 1933 (con Rosemary Carr Benét)
• James Shore's Daughter, 1934
• The Burning City, 1936
• The Magic of Poetry and the Poet's Art, 1936
• By the Waters of Babylon, 1937
• The Headless Horseman, 1937
• Thirteen O'Clock, 1937
• Johnny Pye and the Fool Killer, 1938
• Tales Before Midnight, 1939
• The Ballad of the Duke's Mercy, 1939
• Nightmare at Noon, 1940
• Elementals, 1940-41 (broadcast)
• Freedom's Hard-Bought Thing, 1941 (broadcast)
• Listen to the People, 1941
• A Summons to the Free, 1941
• Cheers for Miss Bishop, 1941
• They Burned the Books, 1942
• Selected Works, 1942 (2 vol.)
• Short Stories, 1942
• Nightmare at Noon, 1942 (in The Treasury Star Parade, ed. by William A. Bacher)
• A Child Is Born, 1942 (broadcast)
• They Burned the Books, 1942 (broadcast)

Opere postume

• Western Star, 1943 (non completato)
• Twenty Five Short Stories, 1943
• America, 1944
• O'Halloran's Luck and Other Short Stories, 1944
• We Stand United, 1945
• The Bishop's Beggar, 1946
• The Last Circle, 1946
• Selected Stories, 1947
• From the Earth to the Moon, 1958

Bibliografia

• (EN) Everett Franklin Bleiler, The Checklist of Fantastic Literature, Chicago, Shasta Publishers, 1948, pp. 46-47.
• (EN) Charles A. Fenton, Stephen Vincent Benét: The Life and Times of an American Man of Letters, 1898-1943, Westport, Greenwood Press, 1958, ristampa 1978.

Altri progetti

Altri progetti

• Wikimedia Commons

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Collegamenti esterni

• Bibliografia italiana di Stephen Vincent Benét, su Catalogo Vegetti della letteratura fantastica, Fantascienza.com. (aggiornato fino al gennaio 2010)
• (EN) Bibliografia di Stephen Vincent Benét, in Internet Speculative Fiction Database, Al von Ruff.
• (EN) Opere di Stephen Vincent Benét, in Progetto Gutenberg.