A Selection from Young Adventure, A Book of Poems 


A Selection from Young Adventure, A Book of 
Poems 
By Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) 


Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 — March 13, 1943) 

was an American author, poet, short story writer and 

novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative c 
poem of the American Civil War, John Brown’s Body (1928), for which he 
won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, “The Devil and 
Daniel Webster” and “By the Waters of Babylon.” 


It was a line of Benét’s poetry that gave the title to Dee Brown’s famous 
history of the destruction of Native American tribes by the United States: 
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. (Summary excerpted from Wikipedia) 


This recording includes the Dedication, Foreword and first 16 poems from 
Young Adventure, A Book of Poems. 


Read by Bryan Ness; total running time: 01:22:43 


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Cover picture by Olga Merck/Stiftung historische Museen Hamburg - Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte 
(1905). Author photo by unknown photographer at Yale College (1919). Copyright expired in US, Canada, EU and 
all countries with author’s life +70 yrs laws. Cover design by Janette Brown. This design is in the public domain. 


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