Western Star eBook Stephen Vincent Benet
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This narrative poem on the settling of the United States was awarded the Pulitzer Price posthumously in 1944. We are republishing this classic works with a new additional biography of the author. Benét was an accomplished writer at an early age, having had his first book published at 17. His best known works are the book-length narrative poem American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), and two short stories, The Devil and Daniel Webster (1936) and By the Waters of Babylon (1937).
Western Star eBook Stephen Vincent Benet
And Stephen Vincent Benet does just that in his 1943 "Western Star."The acclaimed "John Brown's Body" was Benet's testament to the men and women of the Civil War. He wrote honoring those of the North and South, in their strengths and weaknesses, their sufferings and rejoicings, their grit and their fears. Ken Burns, perhaps, was inspired by Benet, for his television series caught the echo of Benet's poetry, making it even more heart-rending.
"Western Star" goes back farther. It starts before the American Revolution, before the colonies even organized, back to England of the late 1500's. The poem closes in the late 1600s in the land that was, after the price of revolt against King George upon his throne was paid, to become the United States of America.
This poem is about the English settlers of the Plymouth and Roanoak settlements: who they were, their parents, the world in which they were born, what brought them to undertake the risks of crossing the Atlantic and trying to set roots in this Western land. Some, like Master Lanyard, widowed and wed again, came from religious convictions. Some were hoping for land of their own. Not a few were a hop-and-a-skip ahead of the English gallows, yet they ended up dangling from those in the New World.
The Native Americans are limned with understanding and compassion, but at that time, indentured English women and men, rather than the shamefully abducted slaves who came later, were to be found.
"Western Star" is less well-known than other Benet poems and stories but merits our attention. This is an unfinished manuscript on which Benet was working when he died in 1944 from a heart-attack. Loving hands brought together Benet's notes but while the light within shines, it does not leap like fire.
Here, for example, is part of his Western Star portrait of Katharine Lanyard,
"But Katharine was different metal.
She could be burned or burn but she must have
Something that used her, wore her, and absorbed her,
Something that was not easy so it must be right,
And she struggled in the strict bond of her faith..." (p. 103)
And here, from "John Brown's Body" is Mary Lou Wingate
"Mary Lou Wingate, lightly made but hard to break as a rapier blade..."
Western Star is still working toward the swift, precise line: Benet perhaps would have excised the "or burn," for example. John Brown's Body has achieved it.
Why then, read "Western Star?" I read and love it because
---Benet even incomplete and unfinished is an historian, writing an American epic, giving us part of our heritage even if we came late and differently to this country. He has filled this book with the old names, all real members of those settlements, and they deserve to be remembered of us
--Benet even incomplete and unfinished is a poet. Read "Western Star" a few pages at a time perhaps to keep it fresh. It IS poetry and readers will be rewarded with passages of surpassing beauty & nobility
--He is gone, and all we have of a true poet's legacy is worth experiencing. I read the complete poems of Emily Dickson for a similar reason. Each is part of Dickinson and can illuminate other better known and sometimes better poems.
So too with "Western Star." At used book prices, a fine value, too.
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Western Star eBook Stephen Vincent Benet Reviews
Stephen Vincent Benet did a fine job with John Brown's Body, which is one of my favorites and glad to have this other volume of his
I have loved Western Star since I was a child. My mother used to have me read aloud from it. I purchased this one to share it with my sister. I was sorry the one you sent didn't have a dust cover.
This is a fine, book-length poem. Beautifully written! Recommend it to anyone who is interested n both history and literature
The first of what Benet expected to be five novella-length poems about America. (He died before any more could be written.)
Great book, very readable. Not available as an ebook - if anyone owns the copyight, they've made the decision that there isn't a market for patriotic poetry. (I plan to scan it and put it up on for $.99 so it doesn't die. It's hard to format poetry, though. If anyone knows how to do that using Word, I'd like to know.)
My 5-star rating is for the content of the book -- a lyrical tribute to early English settlers of this country, and the world they found here, and how they survived (or didn't) so far from the homes they left behind. It ought to be required reading for high school history students, and for adults who appreciate our country's roots.
It does require an understanding and appreciation for poetic English writing, and better yet, the ability to visualize the people and their surroundings.
The book I recieved (a later edition than the original pictured) was in fine condition, and arrived promptly. It was given as a gift to an avid 19-year-old reader.
And Stephen Vincent Benet does just that in his 1943 "Western Star."
The acclaimed "John Brown's Body" was Benet's testament to the men and women of the Civil War. He wrote honoring those of the North and South, in their strengths and weaknesses, their sufferings and rejoicings, their grit and their fears. Ken Burns, perhaps, was inspired by Benet, for his television series caught the echo of Benet's poetry, making it even more heart-rending.
"Western Star" goes back farther. It starts before the American Revolution, before the colonies even organized, back to England of the late 1500's. The poem closes in the late 1600s in the land that was, after the price of revolt against King George upon his throne was paid, to become the United States of America.
This poem is about the English settlers of the Plymouth and Roanoak settlements who they were, their parents, the world in which they were born, what brought them to undertake the risks of crossing the Atlantic and trying to set roots in this Western land. Some, like Master Lanyard, widowed and wed again, came from religious convictions. Some were hoping for land of their own. Not a few were a hop-and-a-skip ahead of the English gallows, yet they ended up dangling from those in the New World.
The Native Americans are limned with understanding and compassion, but at that time, indentured English women and men, rather than the shamefully abducted slaves who came later, were to be found.
"Western Star" is less well-known than other Benet poems and stories but merits our attention. This is an unfinished manuscript on which Benet was working when he died in 1944 from a heart-attack. Loving hands brought together Benet's notes but while the light within shines, it does not leap like fire.
Here, for example, is part of his Western Star portrait of Katharine Lanyard,
"But Katharine was different metal.
She could be burned or burn but she must have
Something that used her, wore her, and absorbed her,
Something that was not easy so it must be right,
And she struggled in the strict bond of her faith..." (p. 103)
And here, from "John Brown's Body" is Mary Lou Wingate
"Mary Lou Wingate, lightly made but hard to break as a rapier blade..."
Western Star is still working toward the swift, precise line Benet perhaps would have excised the "or burn," for example. John Brown's Body has achieved it.
Why then, read "Western Star?" I read and love it because
---Benet even incomplete and unfinished is an historian, writing an American epic, giving us part of our heritage even if we came late and differently to this country. He has filled this book with the old names, all real members of those settlements, and they deserve to be remembered of us
--Benet even incomplete and unfinished is a poet. Read "Western Star" a few pages at a time perhaps to keep it fresh. It IS poetry and readers will be rewarded with passages of surpassing beauty & nobility
--He is gone, and all we have of a true poet's legacy is worth experiencing. I read the complete poems of Emily Dickson for a similar reason. Each is part of Dickinson and can illuminate other better known and sometimes better poems.
So too with "Western Star." At used book prices, a fine value, too.
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