Selected poetry and prose
By: Stephen Vincent Benét ; edited with an introduction by Basil Davenport
Series: Rinehart editions -- 100
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1960
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Work titles: Works
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page xiv).
Table of contents: title: [I]. Poetry. 1. Ballads and tales; title: American names; title: Ballad of William Sycamore; title: The mountain whippoorwill; title: King David; title: The retort discourteous; title: Southern ships and settlers; title: Captain Kidd; title: French pioneers; title: Thomas Jefferson; title: John James Audubon; title: Daniel Boone; title: Western Wagons; title: 2. Young adventure; title: 8:30 a.m. on 32nd street; title: Mortuary parlors; title: Ghosts of a lunatic asylum; title: For all blasphemers; title: Architects; title: Talk; title: The golden corpse; title: To Rosemary; title: Nomenclature; title: Difference; title: A sad song; title: A nonsense song; title: 3. My Fair Lady; title: To Rosemary, on the methods by which she might become an angel; title: Legend; title: Dulce ridentem; title: Illa; title: Hands; title: Memory; title: Memento Mori; title: 4. Nightmares and visitants; title: Notes to be left in a cornerstone; title: Short ode; title: Metropolitan nightmare; title: Nightmare, with angels; title: Nightmare number three; title: 1936; title: Sparrow; title: For city lovers; title: Do you remember, Springfield?; title: Ode to Walt Whitman; title: Nightmare for future reference; title: Minor litany; title: Nightmare at noon; title: They burned the books (radio script); title: [II]. Prose.; title: 1. Stories of America; title: Jacob and the Indians; title: The devil and Daniel Webster; title: Freedom's a hard-bought thing; title: Johnny Pye and the fool-killer; title: The die-hard; title: Glamour; title: The prodigal children; title: Schooner Fairchild's class; title: Doc Mellhorn and the pearly gates; title: 2. Far from here and now; title: The barefoot saint; title: The bishop's beggar; title: The curfew tolls; title: Into Egypt; title: By the waters of Babylon; title: 3. Criticism and letters; title: Foreword to Muriel Rukeyser's Theory of Flight; title: Epic on an American theme (correspondence with the Guggenheim foundation).