The Life, Times, and Literary Genius of Stephen Vincent Benet
             Stephen Vincent Benet was brought up among and honest and wholesome upbringing. His father was an Army captain who would travel all across the U.S. Young Stephen was born on July 22, 1898, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, approximately twelve years after the birth of his older brother William Rose. Stephen was a product of 16 years of military institutions in which he displayed his overwhelming literary tact in the English classes of those Californian and Georgian military schools. This fascination with literature can be explained. Stephen's father would often read the works of contemporaries to Stephen, his brother William Rose and his only sister, Laura. Because of this, all the Benet siblings went on to be world renown writers.
             At the age of seventeen, Stephen's first had one of his works published in a major periodicle, the New Republic. The year was 1915 when he was first published, and due to his amazing work with words and language, he was offered a chance to go to Yale. He accepted this invitation only to find he had to take military leave from his studies to fight in World War I. He returned to Yale and received his Bachelor's Degree in 1919 and a Master's in 1920, beside one of his best friends and his mentor as well, Henry Seidel Canby.
             In 1920, Stephen Benet met Rosemary Carr, and they soon got married within the next year. The happy couple settled in New York and became the proud parents of three beautiful children. In 1926, Stephen was invited to attend Paris on a Guggenheim Fellowship. He took the invite with open arms and moved there, only to find that there, among the hustle and bustle of the European culture, that he would wrote his most loved and famous work, " John Brown's Body."
             This long, narrative poem is about a leader in the Civil War, mostly about the Reconstruction. This work has been seen as mere ...