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Document 49455

STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT
From his epic Civil War poem, John Brown's Body.
Autograph Poem signed: "Stephen Vincent Benét/March 31, 1930", 1p, 7½x10½. In full: "They came like a run of salmon where the/ice-bed Kennebec flings/Its death at the arrow-silver of the/packed and mounting host/They came like the young deer trooping to the ford by Eastern Springs/Their new horns fuzzy with velvet,/their coats still rough with the frost/Georgia, New York, Virginia, Rhode Island,/Florida, Maine,/Piney-woods squirrel-hunter and clerk/with the brand-new gun/Thus they were marshalled and drilled/while Spring turned Summer again/Until they could stumble toward death/at gartersnake-crocked Bull Run." The Civil War Battles of First Bull Run (July 21, 1861) and Second Bull Run (August 28-30, 1862), called the battles of Manassas by the Confederacy, were the theme of this poem. Benét's epic poem, 377 pages in its first edition, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1929. Benét, who died in 1943, was posthumously awarded a second Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for Western Star, an unfinished saga about the eastern seaboard. Irregular left edge, lightly shaded at margins, else fine condition.

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