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William Rose Benet
Benét, William Rose
William Rose Benét, 1886–1950, American poet and editor, b. Brooklyn, grad. Yale, 1907; brother of Stephen Vincent Benét. He was associated as editor or assistant editor with the Century Magazine, the Literary Review of the New York Evening Post, and the Saturday Review of Literature (which he helped found in 1924). His books include such collections of poetry as Merchants from Cathay (1913), The Great White Wall (1916), and Man Possessed (1927); a novel, The First Person Singular (1922); a volume of essays, Wild Goslings (1927); and an anthology, The Reader's Encyclopedia (1948). He also coedited The Oxford Anthology of American Literature (1938). His autobiographical verse-narrative, The Dust Which Is God (1941), won the 1942 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. His second wife was the poet, Elinor Wylie, whose poems he edited in 1932.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright© 2012, The Columbia University Press.Selected full-text books and articles on this topic at Questia
American Poetry since 1900
Louis Untermeyer. Henry Holt, 1923
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Louis Untermeyer. Henry Holt, 1923
Librarian’s tip: "William Rose Benet" begins on p. 235
Modern American Poetry
Louis Untermeyer. Harcourt Brace and Company, 1921 (Revised edition)
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Louis Untermeyer. Harcourt Brace and Company, 1921 (Revised edition)
Librarian’s tip: "William Rose Benet" begins on p. 331
105 Greatest Living Authors Present the World's Best Stories, Humor, Drama, Biography, History, Essays, Poetry
Whit Burnett. Dial Press, 1950
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Whit Burnett. Dial Press, 1950
Librarian’s tip: "William Rose Benet" begins on p. 225
America's 93 Greatest Living Authors Present This Is My Best: Over 150 Self-Chosen and Complete Masterpieces, Together with Their Reasons for Their Selections
Whit Burnett. Dial Press, 1942
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Whit Burnett. Dial Press, 1942
Librarian’s tip: "William Rose Benet: Why He Selected from 'The Dust Which Is God' " begins on p. 606
The Questing Spirit: Religion in the Literature of Our Time
Halford E. Luccock; Frances Brentano; Robert E. Luccock; Lowell Brentano. Coward-McCann, 1947
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Halford E. Luccock; Frances Brentano; Robert E. Luccock; Lowell Brentano. Coward-McCann, 1947
Librarian’s tip: "The Falconer Of God, The Army of the Dead and The Arrival" by William Rose Benet
The Reader's Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia of World Literature and the Arts
William Rose Benét. Thomas Y. Crowell, 1948
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William Rose Benét. Thomas Y. Crowell, 1948