Stephen V. Benét

**Stephen Vincent Benét** (Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania,  – New York, ) a oa ur skrivagner hag ur barzh stadunanat.

Brudet eo dreist-holl dre e varzhoneg *John Brown's Body* (1928) a-zivout Brezel diabarzh Stadoù-Unanet Amerika, dre e istor moliac'h (*fantasy*) *The Devil and Daniel Webster* (1936) hag e istor skiant-faltazi *By the Waters of Babylon* (1937).

## Buhez
Ganet e voe d'an 22 a viz Gouhere 1898 e Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, gant Frances Neill Rose ha James Walker Benét. E-tro ar bloaz 1908, e dad, ur c'horonal en U. S. Army, a gasas Stephen Vincent, a oa war-dro 10 vloaz, d'an *Hitchcock Military Academy* e San Rafael (Kalifornia). Goude-se e voe diplomet gant ar *Summerville Academy* en Augusta (Georgia) ; e 1919, oadet a 21 bloaz, e tapas un diplom *Bachelor of Arts* (un aotreegezh, 4 bloaz studi) e Skol-veur Yale e New Haven (Connecticut), ma voe rener ar *Yale Literary Magazine*, ar c'hoshañ kazetenn studierien en SUA (e 1836 e teuas an niverenn gentañ er-maez) p'edo gant e vloavezh studi diwezhañ. Meur a briz a voe deroet dezhañ er Skol-veur evit e varzhonegoù. Ouzhpenn skrivañ evit ar *Yale Literary Magazine* e savas barzhonegoù evit *The Yale Record*, kazetenn fentus ar Skol-veur .

E 1916, pa oa 17 vloaz, e voe embannet e levr barzhonegoù kentañ ; e 1918 e voe deroet dezhañ an diplom *Master of Arts* e saozneg a-drugarez d'e drede levr, a ginnigas evel un dezenn.

E 1920-21, e-kerzh ur veaj aozet gant ar Skol-veur e Bro-C'hall, e reas anaoudegezh gant ur studierez stadunanat en *École Normale* e Sèvres, Rosemary Carr (1898-1962) ; d'ar  e timezjont e Chicago, ha tri bugel o devoe : Stephanie Jane, Thomas Carr ha Rachel Felicity. Ur skrivagnerez hag ur varzhez e oa R. Carr ivez.

E 1923 e voe ur barzh darnamzer e skipailh ar gelaouenn *Time Magazine*, a oa o paouez bezañ krouet.

Er bloaz 1926 e voe deroet dezhañ ur yalc'had *Guggenheim Fellowship* ; distreiñ da Vro-C'hall a eure, ha p'edo e Pariz e skrivas e oberenn vrudetañ, *John Brown's Body*. Ur pezh-c'hoari a dennas anezhi, a voe c'hoariet e Broadway e 1953.

E 1929 e voe dilennet en *American Academy of Arts and Letters* ; daou vloaz goude, e 1931, e voe dilennet en *American Academy of Arts and Sciences*

Adalek 1933 betek 1942 e voe Stephen V. Benét barner er *Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition* ; kreñvaet e voe perzh an aozadur-se el lennegezh stadunanat e-pad e amzer gefridi.

Goude embannadur e istor moliac'h *The Devil and Daniel Webster* e 1936 e voe meur a skrivagner ouzh e azasaat evit ar c'hoariva, hep aotre ebet ; aet skuizh gant kement-se, Stephen Benét a zivizas e 1937 e azasaat e-unan, a-gevret gant ar sonaozour Douglas Moore (1893-1969) evit sevel ur pezh-c'hoari, *The Devil and Daniel Webster: A Play in One Act* e 1938 hag un opera, *The Devil and Daniel Webster: An Opera in One Act*, a voe c'hoariet e Broadway e 1939 ; diwar ar pezh-c'hoari e voe savet ar film *All That Money Can Buy*, sevenet gant William Dieterle e 1941. Diwar *Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent* (1937), an heuliad skrivet gant S. V. Benét ivez, 50 rann trede koulzad ar stirad skinwel *Matinee Theater* (1955-1958), sevenet gant Alan Cooke ha skignet gant NBC d'an .

E 1937, Stephen V. Benét a azasaas «&nbsp;Skrapadenn ar Sabinezed&nbsp;» (*The Rape of the Sabine Women* e saozneg), ur vojenn henroman, da sevel e istor *The Sobbin' Women* ("Ar maouezed o tifronkañ"). E 1954 e voe savet diwarnañ ar film *Seven Brides for Seven Brothers* sevenet gant Stanley Donen ; ur gomedienn war gan a voe 1978, hag ur stirad skinwel e 1982.

D'an 13 a viz Meurzh 1943, p'edo e New York, e varvas Stephen Vincent Benét diwar un taol-kalon ; 44 vloaz e oa. Beziet e voe en *Evergreen Cemetery* e Stonington (Connecticut), m'edo perc'henn war un ti.

## Oberennoù
### Barzhonegoù
*1915 : *Five Men and Pompey, a series of dramatic portraits*
*1916 : *The Hemp*
*1917 : *The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun* • *Portrait of a Boy*
*1918 : *Alexander the Sixth Dines with the Cardinal of Capua* • *Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room* • *Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum* • *Poor Devil!* • *Portrait of a Baby* • *Portrait of Young Love* • *The Breaking Point* • *The General Public* • *The Innovator* • *Young Blood* • *Young Adventure: A book of Poems*
*1920 : *Judgment* • *Operation* • *The Retort Discourteous* • *The Trapeze Performer* • *Three Days' Ride* • *Heavens and Earth: A book of Poems*
*1921 : *Difference*
*1922 : *The Ballad of William Sycamore*
*1923 : *All Night Long* • *In a Glass of Water Before Retiring* • *King David*
*1924 : *Snowfall*
*1925 : *A Nonsense Song* • *A Sad Song* • *Architects* • *Chemical Analysis* • *Days Pass: Men Pass* • *Dulce Ridentem* • *Evening and Morning* • *For All Blasphemers* • *Illa * • *Legend* • *Nomenclature* • *The Golden Corpse* • *The Mountain Whippoorwill: How Hill-Billy Jim Won the Great Fiddler's Prize: A Poem* • *To Rosemary * • *To Rosemary, on the Methods by Which She Might Become an Angel* • *Tiger Joy: A Book of Poems*
*1927 : *American Names* • *John Brown's Body* • *Metropolitan Nightmare* • *The Lost Wife*
*1929 : *Bad Dream*
*1931 : *Hands*
*1933 : *Captain Kidd* • *Cotton Mather* • *Daniel Boone* • *French Pioneers* • *John James Audubon* • *Southern Ships and Settlers* • *Thomas Jefferson* • *Western wagons*
*1935 : *1936* • *For City Spring* • *Girl Child* • *Litany for Dictatorships* • *Nightmare Number Three* • *Nightmare, with Angels* • *Ode to Walt Whitman*
*1936 : *Complaint of Body, the Ass, Against His Rider, the Soul* • *Do You Remember, Springfield?* • *For City Lovers* • *For Those Who Are As Right As Any* • *Memory* • *Notes to Be Left in a Cornerstone* • *Ode to the Austrian Socialists* • *Old Man Hoppergrass* • *Short Ode* • *Sparrow* • *Thanks* • *The Burning City: New Poems*
*1938 : *Nightmare for Future Reference*
*1940 : *Minor Litany* • *Nightmare at Noon*
*1941 : *Listen to the People*
*1943 : *Western Star*
*1946 (dalif) : *For Remembrance (To R.C.B.)* • *If This Should Change* • *Little Testament.* • *Memento Mori* • *Remarks from a Back-Row Seat by an Amateur Propagandist* • *Song for Three Soldiers * • *To the People of France* • *Tuesday, November 5th, 1940*
### C'hoariva
*1924 : *Nerves* • *That Awful Mrs. Eaton*
*1937 : *The Headless Horseman: one-act play*
### Romantoù
*1921 : *The Beginnings of Wisdom: A Novel*
*1922 : *Young People's Pride: A Novel*
*1923 : *Jean Huguenot: A Novel*
*1926 : *The Bat*
*1934 : *James Shore's Daughter: A Novel*
### Istorioù berr
*1920 : *Summer Thunder*
*1922 : *Elementals*
*1926 : *Take a Fellow Your Size* • *Spanish Bayonet*
*1928 : *The Story About the Anteater*
*1929 : *The King of the Cats* • *The Barefoot Saint: A Short Story*
*1930 : *The Treasure of Vasco Gomez* • *The Litter of Rose Leaves: A Short Story*
*1931 : *A Life at Angelo's*
*1932 : *Glamour*
*1933 : *Too Early Spring*
*1935 : *A Story by Angela Poe* • *The Curfew Tolls*
*1936 : *Everybody Was Very Nice* • *The Blood of the Martyrs* • *The Devil and Daniel Webster*
*1937 : *The Sobbin' Women* • *A Death in the Country* • *Blossom and Fruit* • *Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent* • *The Place of the Gods* • *Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer* • *A Tooth for Paul Revere* • *The Last of the Legions*
*1938 : *O'Halloran's Luck* • *Doc Mellhorn and the Pearly Gates* • *The Die-Hard* • *Jacob and the Indians*
*1939 : *Into Egypt* • *Among Those Present* • *Schooner Fairchild's Class*
*1940 : *No Visitors* • *All Around the Town* • *Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing* • *The Angel Was a Yankee*
*1941 : *Good Picker* • *A Gentleman of Fortune*
*1942 : *Famous* • *The Gold Dress* • *The Minister's Books* • *The Prodigal Children*
*1943 : *As It Was in the Beginning*
*1946 (dalif) : *The Bishop's Beggar* • *The Captives* • *The Danger of Shadows* • *The Land Where There Is No Death* • *The Three Fates* • *This Bright Dream* • *William Riley and the Fates*
### Levrioùigoù
*1937 : *The Devil and Daniel Webster*
*1938 : *Johnny Pye & the Fool-Killer*
*2023 (dalif) : *The King of the Cats*
### Dastumadoù
*1937 : *Thirteen O'Clock: Stories of Several Worlds*
*1939 : *Tales Before Midnight*
*1942 : *Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét* • *Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét: Volume One, Poetry* • *Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét: Volume Two, Prose*
*1943 : *The Short Stories of Stephen Vincent Benét - A Selection* • *Twenty-Five Short Stories by Stephen Vincent Benét*
*1946 : *The Last Circle* • *The Stephen Vincent Benét Pocket Book*
*1947 (dalif) : *Selected Stories*
*1967 (d) : *The Devil and Daniel Webster and Other Stories*
*2014 (d) : *By the Waters of Babylon, and Other Fantasies and Prophecies*

## Enorioù
*1916 : *Albert Stanburrough Cook Prize in Poetry*, Skol-veur Yale
*1919 : *John Masefield Poetry Prize*, Skol-veur Yale
*1927 : *O. Henry Award* evit *The Devil and Daniel Webster*
*1929 : *Pulitzer Prize for Poetry* evit *John Brown's Body*
*1932 : *O. Henry Award* evit *An End to Dreams*
*1940 : *O. Henry Award* evit *Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing*
*1943 : *Gold Medal in Literature* gant an *American Academy of Arts and Letters*
*1944 : *Pulitzer Prize for Poetry* evit *Western Star*

## Levrlennadur
* Fenton, Charles A. (1958=. *Stephen Vincent Benét: The Life and Times of an American Man of Letters, 1898–1943*. Westport : Greenwood Press / Praeger, 1978 

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