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March 28, 2015
 

A Minor Poet

 
Stephen Vincent Benét

About This Poem

 

“A Minor Poet” was published in Benét’s book Young Adventure (Yale University Press, 1918).

 

Stephen Vincent Benét was born on July 22, 1898, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1929 for his long poem John Brown’s Body (1928) and again in 1944 for the posthumously published Western Star (1943). Benét died on March 13, 1943, in New York City.

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