This wonderful book of Benét's poems, originally published in 1925, is
republished here with a new introductory 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).