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Stephen Vincent Benet

     Only in a time when the pressure of the world amounts to angst and the
fight for freedom can a world advance in it's literary achievements. A writer,
just like an artist, builds his creations from the mood and settings of the
surrounding atmosphere. In the first half of the twentieth century, the
atmosphere was filled with resources to stimulate literary creativity, such as
the second World War and the Great Depression (Roache  102: 14). The social
genre of the time gave way to the broad appeal to American life and the focus of
freedom leading to original stories and historical themes (Folsom 3: 953). Of
course, the past would remain a constant influence. Some common topics were the
Civil War and the settlement of western U.S. frontier life (Magill 1: 174).
Stephen Vincent Benet took all these factors into mind during his life as a
twentieth century writer/poet. Keeping the times, the life, and the literature
of Stephen Vincent Benet a major part of his influence and achievements, he
helped push America towards a united cultural victory.
     Stephen Vincent Benet was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to James
Walker Benet, a career military officer, and Francis Neill Rose Benet on the
twenty-second of July 1898 (Roache 102: 11, 13). He described himself as a
positive-thinking and modest man, who is thin, attractive, vivacious, whereas
his wife and his mother-in-law would consider him a plain, tall, large biter-of-
nails who carries a foolish expression, but whose intellect is too much for
words (Parsekian 1).
     He couldn't have been too foolish of a person due to his positive
upbringing. Benet's parents planned for him to be a success in whatever he chose
to do. Their open-mindedness encouraged him to explore books and ideas in a
professional state., as well as to appreciate and take literature and history
very seriously (Roache 102: 13). Because of this upbringing, all three Benet
children became poets and authors. (Stephen Vincent Benet was the youngest of
them.) Much influence over the Benets came from love for the country because
James' military work called for traveling between Georgia, California, Illinois,
New York, and Pennsylvania (Griffith 11).
     Benet's education shows how successful he really was. He entered Yale
University at 17 years old, when he published his first book. About that time,
he became professional with New York writers (Roache 102: 13). Stephen Vincent
Benet earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1919 and his Master of Arts degree
in 1920 at Yale before accepting a fellowship to Paris where he could live
cheaply and write his first novel and would later find his wife. One attempt to
enlist in the army and follow in the footsteps of his father failed in 1918,
leading him to a job working for the State Department in Washington, DC before
re-entering Yale (Magill 1: 171). In 1929, Benet was entered into the National
Institute of Arts and Letters in 1938, which he stayed a member of until his
death (Folsom 3: 954).
     While in Yale, Benet held many other jobs such as editor, contributor,
and chairman of the Yale Literary Magazine, then editor and contributor of the
undergraduate humor magazine Yale Record. These jobs gave way to him working on
S4N, a New Haven magazine of poetry. In 1919, Benet published the play of
Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlains the Great (1590) with Monty Wooley by Yale
University Press. In 1920, he published Heavens and Earth as his thesis during
his graduate study in England by Holt (Griffith 12). Other editorial jobs
include reviewing for the New York Herald Tribune and the Saturday Review of
Literature, and the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 1933 (Magill 1:
71). In 1945, Benet published a collection of radio scripts called We Stand
United, and Other Radio Scripts as a propagandistic war effort that he felt was
his destiny (Magill 1: 170).
     Another destiny was marriage. He married Rosemary Carr on November 26,
1921 through the fellowship to Paris in 1920. They started living in Chicago,
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