A Book of Americans
work by Benét
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discussed in biography
- In Stephen Vincent Benét
A Book of Americans (1933), poems written with his wife, the former Rosemary Carr, brought many historical characters to life for American schoolchildren. Benét’s preoccupation with historical themes was also the basis for Western Star, an ambitious epic verse narrative on American history that Benét…
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place in children’s literature
- In children’s literature: Peaks and plateaus (1865–1940)
…hearty ballad-like poems collected in A Book of Americans (1933). But the only verse comparable to that of Stevenson or de la Mare was the exquisite Under the Tree (1922), by the novelist Elizabeth Madox Roberts, a treasure that should never be forgotten.
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