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Heavens and Earth

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The collection assembles varied lyric and narrative poems that range from reworkings of classical myths to sharp urban vignettes and satirical sketches of modern life. Several longer pieces retell mythic episodes with vivid, imagistic language, while other poems observe city streets, public figures, and personal loss with concise reportage and elegiac restraint. Recurring concerns include desire, mortality, war, and social disorder, framed by a tension between heroic past and everyday present and rendered through formal experimentation and dramatic monologue.

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Title: Heavens and Earth

A book of poems

Author: Stephen Vincent Benét

Release date: October 14, 2024 [eBook #74579]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1920

Credits: Richard Tonsing, Aaron Adrignola, Tim Lindell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

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HEAVENS AND EARTH
A BOOK OF POEMS

BY
STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1920
Copyright, 1920
BY
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
TO
GEORGE THEODORE ACHELIS
1897–1920

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Ainslie’s Magazine, The Bowling Green, Books and the Book World, The Dial, The New Republic, Romance, Sun, The Sun Dial, The Yale Review and The Yale Literary Magazine for permission to reprint poems included in this volume.