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Book Description: When Stephen Vincent Ben t died in 1943 at the age of 44, all of America mourned the loss. Ben t was one of the country s most well known poets of the first half of the twentieth century and as a fiction writer, he had an even larger audience. This book is a collection of essays celebrating Ben t and his writing. The first group of essays addresses Ben t s life, times, and personal relationships. Thomas Carr Ben t reminisces about his father in the first essay, and others consider Ben t s marriage to his wife Rosemary; Archibald MacLeish, Thornton Wilder and Ben t as friends, liberal humanists and public activists; and his friendships with Philip Barry, Jed Harris, and Thornton Wilder. The second group contains essays about Ben t s poetry, fiction, and drama. They discuss Ben t s role in the development of historical poetry in America, John Brown s Body and the Civil War, Hawthorne, Ben t and historical fiction, Ben t s Faustian America, the adaptation of 'The Devil and Daniel Webster' to drama and then to film, Ben t s use of fantasy and science fiction, and Ben t as a dramatist for stage, screen and radio.

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