John Brown

WebA new audiobook edition of Stephen Vincent Benet's epic poem of the American Civil War, spanning the years of the slave trade, John Brown's attack on Harper's Ferry, Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, and the assassination of Lincoln. Part history, part thrilling historical fiction, part haunting ghost story, all set to musical rhyme and meter. WebJohn Brown's Body. American muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because... John Brown's … reichenstein castle location country

WebBy the time American poet Stephen Vincent Benet wrote "John Brown's Body" in the 1920s, the literary world had long since passed the form by. Benet, chronicling the history of the American Civil War, demonstrates why the epic still deserves our attention. WebStephen Vincent Benét. (1898–1943). John Brown’s Body, a long narrative poem on the American Civil War is considered to be Benét’s greatest work. It won him the Pulitzer prize for poetry in 1929. The poem has been described as a combination of romanticism and realism. Born on July 22, 1898, into a military family, Benét was raised on ... WebExcerpt from John Brown's Body But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land, As mountainous-deep, as flowered with blue rivers, Thirsty with deserts, buried under snows, As native as the shape of Navajo quivers, And native, too, as the sea-voyaged rose. Swift runner, never captured or subdued, Seven-branched elk … procomm homeowners association