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Stephen Vincent Benét
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Portrait of Stephen Vincent Benet wearing round glasses, a suit, and tie, looking directly at the camera against a plain background.
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) portrait by Carl Van Vecht April 3, 1938. Writer, folklorist and anthropologist celebrated African American culture of the rural South.
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Stephen Vincent Benét: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

David Garrett Izzo and Lincoln Konkle (eds.), Stephen Vincent BenĂ©t: Essays on His Life and Work (2003); Parry Edmund Stroud, Stephen Vincent BenĂ©t (1962); Charles A. Fenton, Stephen Vincent BenĂ©t: The Life and Times of an American Man of Letters, 1898–1943 (1958, reprinted 1978); William Rose BenĂ©t, Stephen Vincent BenĂ©t: My Brother Steve (1943, reprinted as Stephen Vincent BenĂ©t, 1978), with John Chipman Farrar.

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Anniversary information added. Jul 18, 2026
Anniversary information added. Mar 09, 2026
Article revised, with Benét's place of birth corrected (he was born in Fountain Hill, not Bethlehem). May 15, 2025
First paragraph modernization. Apr 17, 2024
Modified link of Web site: Poetry Foundation - Biography of Stephen Vincent Benet. Aug 18, 2017
Add new Web site: All Poetry - Biography of Stephen Vincent Benet. Mar 07, 2017
Add new Web site: Poetry Foundation - Biography of Stephen Vincent Benet. Jul 25, 2013
Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Biography of Stephen Benïżœtv. Jul 25, 2013
Add new Web site: Academy of American Poets - Biography of Stephen Vincent Benïżœt. Jul 25, 2013
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Stephen Vincent Benïżœt. Dec 07, 2011
Add new Web site: ThinkQuest - Biography of Stephen Vincent Benïżœt. Dec 07, 2011
Added new Web site: Pegasos - Stephen (Vincent) Benet (1898-1943). Jan 19, 2007
Article revised. Apr 28, 2005
Article revised. Jan 29, 1999
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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