Young Adventure, A Book of Poems


Read by Bryan Ness

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. (1 hr 22 min)

Chapters

Dedication and Foreword 6:20 Read by Bryan Ness
The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun 21:31 Read by Bryan Ness
Rain after a Vaudeville Show 2:25 Read by Bryan Ness
The City Revisited 3:04 Read by Bryan Ness
Going Back to School 2:18 Read by Bryan Ness
Nos Immortales 1:24 Read by Bryan Ness
Young Blood 3:14 Read by Bryan Ness
The Quality of Courage 8:42 Read by Bryan Ness
Campus Sonnets: 1) Before an Examination, 2) Talk, 3) May Morning, 4) Return --… 4:13 Read by Bryan Ness
Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua 3:25 Read by Bryan Ness
The Breaking Point 2:12 Read by Bryan Ness
Lonely Burial 1:29 Read by Bryan Ness
Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room 1:37 Read by Bryan Ness
The Hemp 8:53 Read by Bryan Ness
Poor Devil! 2:08 Read by Bryan Ness
Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum 1:37 Read by Bryan Ness
The White Peacock 8:11 Read by Bryan Ness