Tag: Stephen Vincent Benet

• Reading Through the Stacks: 14. John Brown’s Body by Stephen Vincent Benet – A Civil War epic – Part 1

  December 8, 2022

  Poetry, Reading Through the Stacks

  Civil war, epic poem, John Browns Body, novel in verse, Poetry, Stephen Vincent Benet

  It took me a solid month (off and on) to finish this book. Normally I can read a book of poetry in a day because they’re usually only about a hundred pages, but this epic novel in verse weighs in at 385 pages. And I know you’re thinking, but Allie, if you can finish one…