Young Adventure, A Book of Poems

Author(s): Stephen Vincent Benét

Genre(s): Poetry

Narrators: Bryan Ness

Number of Chapters: 17

Length: 1 hour and 22 minutes

Language: English

Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American author, 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 two short stories, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "By the Waters of Babylon".

It was a line of Benet's poetry that gave the title to Dee Brown's famous history of the destruction of Native American tribes by the United States: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. (Summary excerpted from Wikipedia)

This recording includes the Dedication, Foreword and first 16 poems from Young Adventure, A Book of Poems.