Wonder-Makers by Robert Hoskins (Ed.)

Author:Robert Hoskins (Ed.) [Hoskins, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Sci-Fi Anthology
Publisher: Fawcett Crest
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

STEPHEN VINCENT BENET, 1898-1943, born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was that rarity, a poet recognized in his own time. He published his first book of poetry in 1915, while still a teenager and before entering Yale. Benet chose as source material for the great body of his work his own American heritage; his epic poem of the Civil War, John Brown’s Body, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1929. He is known for a number of outstanding short stories, includingBy the Waters of Babylon, a postholocaust view of a world that seems an indictment of the atomic age—although it was published in 1937! Benet wrote a number of other fantasies that stand as classics today, particularly Johnny Pye and the Fool Killer and The Devil and Daniel Webster. The latter has been translated to the stage as a play at least twice, including the recent Archibald MacLeish treatment as Scratch, and once as a musical; it was also produced as a movie (All That Money Can Buy) and has been done on television. During the 1930s Benet’s views of the future often took on a nightmarish tinge, as in the two poems that follow.

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