| 词条 | Stephen Vincent Benét |
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| name = Stephen Vincent Benét | image = Stephen Vincent Benét Yale College BA 1919.jpg | imagesize = 200px | alt =he | caption = Stephen Vincent Benét, Yale College B.A., 1919 | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1898|7|22|mf=y}} | birth_place = Bethlehem, Pennsylvania | death_date = {{Death date and age|1943|3|13|1898|7|22|mf=y}} | death_place = New York City | occupation = Writer | nationality = American | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = Yale University | period = 20th century | genre = Poetry, short story, novel | subject = | movement = | notableworks = John Brown's Body (1929) The Devil and Daniel Webster (1936) By the Waters of Babylon (1937) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) (adapted from Benét's story The Sobbin' Women) | spouse = | partner = | children = Thomas, Stephanie, and Rachel | relatives = William Rose Benét (brother) Laura Benét (sister) | influences = | influenced = | awards = Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1929) O. Henry Award (1937) Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1944, posthumous) | signature = | website = | portaldisp = }} Stephen Vincent Benét {{IPAc-en|b|ᵻ|ˈ|n|eɪ}} (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War John Brown's Body (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for the short stories "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1936) and "By the Waters of Babylon" (1937). In 2009, The Library of America selected his story "The King of the Cats" (1929) for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Fantastic Tales edited by Peter Straub. Life and careerEarly lifeBenét was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to James Walker Benét, a colonel in the United States Army. His grandfather and namesake led the Army Ordnance Corps from 1874 to 1891 as a brigadier general and served in the Civil War.[1] His paternal uncle Laurence Vincent Benét was an ensign in the United States Navy during the Spanish–American War and later manufactured the French-Hotchkiss machine gun.[2] At about age ten, Benét was sent to the Hitchcock Military Academy. He graduated from Summerville Academy in Augusta, GA and from Yale University, where he was "the power behind the Yale Lit", according to Thornton Wilder, a fellow member of the Elizabethan Club. He also edited[3] and contributed light verse to the campus humor magazine The Yale Record.[4] He published his first book at age 17 and was awarded an M.A. in English upon submission of his third volume of poetry in lieu of a thesis.[5] He was also a part-time contributor to the early Time magazine.[6] In 1920-21, Benét went to France on a Yale traveling fellowship, where he met Rosemary Carr; they were married in Chicago in November 1921.[7] Carr was also a writer and poet, and they collaborated on some works. Man of letters{{Rquote|right|They came here, they toiled here, they suffered many pains, they lived here, they died here, they left singing names|Used by the Menorcan Cultural Society to honor their Minorcan ancestors who fled Andrew Turnbull's failed New Smyrna, Florida colony and found sanctuary in St. Augustine, Florida (though Benet actually wrote those lines in a poem about the French pioneers of America).}}Benét helped solidify the place of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and the Yale University Press during his decade-long judgeship of the competition.[8] He published the first volumes of James Agee, Muriel Rukeyser, Jeremy Ingalls, and Margaret Walker. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1931.[9] Benét's fantasy short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1936) won an O. Henry Award. He furnished the material for Scratch, a one-act opera by Douglas Moore. The story was filmed in 1941 and shown originally under the title All That Money Can Buy. He also wrote the sequel "Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent", in which Daniel Webster encounters Leviathan. Death and legacyBenét died of a heart attack in New York City on March 13, 1943 at age 44.[10] He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Stonington, Connecticut, where he had owned the historic Amos Palmer House. On April 17, 1943, NBC broadcast a special tribute to his life and works which included a performance by Helen Hayes.[11][12] He was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for Western Star, an unfinished narrative poem on the settling of the United States. Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee takes its title from the final phrase of Benét's poem "American Names". The full quotation appears at the beginning of Brown's book: I shall rise and pass Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. Benét adapted the Roman myth of the rape of the Sabine Women into the story "The Sobbin' Women". It was adapted as the movie musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. His play John Brown's Body was staged on Broadway in 1953 in a three-person dramatic reading featuring Tyrone Power, Judith Anderson, and Raymond Massey, directed by Charles Laughton. The book was included in Life Magazine's list of the 100 outstanding books of 1924–44.[13] Selected works
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/svbenet.htm|title=Stephen Vinvent Benet, Brigadier General, United States Army|first=Michael Robert|last=Patterson|website=www.arlingtoncemetery.net}} 2. ^{{cite magazine |title=Milestones, May 31, 1948 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,798722,00.html |magazine=Time |date=May 31, 1948 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091014174044/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,798722,00.html |archivedate=October 14, 2009}} 3. ^{{cite web |title=Stephen Vincent Benét |work=Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University Deceased during the Year 1942–1943 |location=New Haven |publisher=Yale University |date=January 1, 1944 |page=123 |url=http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1942-43.pdf}} 4. ^Bronson, Francis W., Thomas Caldecott Chubb, and Cyril Hume, eds. (1922) The Yale Record Book of Verse: 1872-1922. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 16–17, 24, 42–43, 50–51, 67–68, 82–83. 5. ^The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol. 12, Micropaedia, 15th edition, Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. c. 1989 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.trivia-library.com/c/history-of-time-magazine-part-1.htm|title=History of Time Magazine Part 1|website=www.trivia-library.com}} 7. ^{{cite web |website=Poetry Foundation |title=Stephen Vincent Benét |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/stephen-vincent-benet |first=John |last=Griffith}} 8. ^Bradley, George. The Yale Younger Poets Anthology, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, pp. 23–53 9. ^{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=22 April 2011}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Benet__Stephen_Vincent.html|title=Stephen Vincent Benét|author=Weicksel, Amanda|year=2001|work=Literary and Cultural Heritage Map of Pennsylvania|publisher=Pennsylvania Center for the Book, Penn State University|accessdate=May 24, 2010|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611124143/http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Benet__Stephen_Vincent.html|archivedate=June 11, 2010|df=}} 11. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.helenhayes.com/about/radio5.html |title=Radio |website=The Official Web Site of Helen Hayes |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304121826/http://www.helenhayes.com/about/radio5.html |archive-date=March 4, 2016}} 12. ^{{cite news |url=http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/New%20York%20NY%20PM%20%20Daily/New%20York%20NY%20PM%20Daily%201943/New%20York%20NY%20PM%20Daily%201943%20-%201953.pdf |title=Heard and Overheard |location=New York |newspaper=PM |date=April 19, 1943 |page=22 |first=Judy |last=Dupuy}} 13. ^Canby, Henry Seidel. "The 100 Outstanding Books of 1924–1944". Life Magazine, 14 August 1944. Chosen in collaboration with the magazine's editors. 14. ^{{cite book|title=The Drug-shop, Or Endymion in Edmonstoun|author=Stephen Vincent Benét, Nathan Wallach|year=1917|publisher=Yale University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eyMWGQAACAAJ}} Sources
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