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Stephen Vincent Benet, prominent among the young school of writers, will address an audience composed of members of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock in the main Living Room.
He will be introduced by R. S. Hillyer '17, assistant professor in English, who recently said of the author's best-known work:
"Mr. Benet in his 'John Brown's Body' set for himself a major task, accomplished it, and found recognition. His technical skill, his enthusiasm for his material, and his narrative power, are combined in a poem which has had phenomenal and merited success. Mr. Robinson's 'Tristran' and Mr. Benet's 'John Brown's Body' have brought to good poetry unprecedented popular acclaim in this country--a fact which should be significant in our literary history.
Although his exact topic has not yet been announced, Mr. Benet will probably discuss modern literature in general.
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