[DOC] [TLE] John Brown's Body (poem) - Wikipedia [PAR] John Brown's Body (1928) is an epic American poem written by Stephen Vincent 
Benet. Its title references the radical abolitionist John Brown, who raided Harpers 
Ferry in Virginia in the fall of 1859. He was captured and hanged later that year. 
Benet's poem covers the history of the American Civil War. ... It won the Pulitzer 
Prize in 1929. [DOC] [TLE] 'John Brown's Body' - Stephen Vincent Benet and Civil War Memory ... [PAR] Feb 10, 2012 ... 'John Brown's Body' won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929. ... Like Homer and Virgil before 
him, Benet used poetry to give moral significance to a ... He composed John 
Brown's Body, his best-known work, over two years while living in ... The 1920s 
were a critical period in the creation of Civil War memory, and many... [DOC] [TLE] John Brown's Body: Stephen Vincent Benet: 9780929587264 ... [PAR] Editorial Reviews. Review. John Brown taught us that the cheapest price to pay 
for liberty is its ... Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the 
Civil War ... (18981943) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1929 for John 
Brown's Body. ... John Brown's Body is the closest thing we have to an epic poem 
"about"... [DOC] [TLE] Stephen Vincent Bent: John Brown's Body | Voices Education Project [PAR] His most famous work is the long poem John Brown's Body for which he received 
the Pulitzer Prize in 1929a long narrative poem which interweaves historical 
and ... the Civil War, from the raid on Harper's Ferry to Lee's surrender at 
Appomattox. ... posthumously-published Western Star, the first part of an epic 
poem based... [DOC] [TLE] Stephen Vincent Benet | American writer | Britannica.com [PAR] His father read poetry aloud to Stephen, an older brother, William Rose, and a 
sister, ... epic poem in eight sections about the American Civil War by Stephen ... 
John Brown's Body, a long narrative poem on the American Civil War is 
considered to be Benet's greatest work. It won him the Pulitzer prize for poetry in 
1929. [DOC] [TLE] Stephen Vincent Benet (Lehigh) - ExplorePAHistory.com [PAR] In 1926 Bent moved to Paris to create "John Brown's Body," about the fiery 
abolitionist and the coming of the Civil War. A man's large ... The decision to write 
an epic poem about American history surprised some of his contemporaries. 
Many of the ... In 1929 the 15,000-line poem won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. 
Bent was... [DOC] [TLE] Stephen Vincent Bent : Poetry Out Loud [PAR] He graduated in 1919, after submitting a third book of poetry as a substitute for a 
thesis. In 1921 he published his first novel, The Beginning of Wisdom, and 
traveled to Paris in order to study at the Sorbonne. ... He is best known for his 
epic about the Civil War, John Brown's Body, which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 
1929. [DOC] [TLE] Poetry Bent, Stephen Vincent: John Brown's Body. V1. 25 June 2012 ... [PAR] John Brown's Body (1928) is an epic American poem written by ... He was 
captured and hanged later that year, and his name and rebellion inspired the civil 
war song "John Brown's Body". ... It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929. [DOC] [TLE] The Last Campaign of John Brown's Body - War, Literature & the Arts [PAR] book-length poem of the Civil War, John Brown's Body, from the syllabus. ... the 
Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1929, it sold widely, and, although reviews were ... 
even by his detractors for making a serious attempt to pen the epic of the ... part of 
his imagination that could write hack and conventional stories has won out. [DOC] [TLE] John Brown's Body by Benet, Stephen Vincent - Biblio.com [PAR] An American folk-epic which depicts the events of the Civil War.... ... Copy #460 of 
1500 illustrated with oil paintings by John Steuart

Question: His epic Civil War poem "John Brown's Body" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929
Answer: Stephen Vincent Benet