Stephen Vincent Benét - Selected Works

Selected Works

• Five Men and Pompey, 1915
• The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun (Yale University Prize Poem), 1917
• Young Adventure, 1918 (full text)
• Heavens and Earth, 1920
• The Beginnings of Wisdom, 1921
• Young People's Pride, 1922
• Jean Huguenot, 1923
• The Ballad of William Sycamore, 1923
• King David, 1923
• Nerves, 1924 (with John Farrar)
• That Awful Mrs. Eaton, 1924 (with John Farrar)
• Tiger Joy, 1925
• The Mountain Whippoorwill: How Hill-Billy Jim Won the Great Fiddler's Prize, 1925 (full text)
• Spanish Bayonet, 1926
• John Brown's Body, 1928
• The Barefoot Saint, 1929
• The Litter of Rose Leaves, 1930
• Abraham Lincoln, 1930 (screenplay with Gerrit Lloyd)
• Ballads and Poems, 1915–1930, 1931
• A Book of Americans, 1933 (with Rosemary Carr Benét)
• James Shore's Daughter, 1934
• The Burning City, 1936 (includes 'Litany for Dictatorships')
• The Magic of Poetry and the Poet's Art, 1936
• By the Waters of Babylon, 1937
• The Headless Horseman, 1937
• Thirteen O'Clock, 1937
• Johnny Pye and the Fool Killer, 1938
• Tales Before Midnight, 1939
• The Ballad of the Duke's Mercy, 1939
• Nightmare at Noon, 1940
• Elementals, 1940–41 (broadcast)
• Freedom's Hard-Bought Thing, 1941 (broadcast)
• Listen to the People, 1941
• A Summons to the Free, 1941
• Cheers for Miss Bishop, 1941 (screenplay with Adelaide Heilbron, Sheridan Gibney)
• They Burned the Books, 1942
• Selected Works, 1942 (2 vols.)
• Short Stories, 1942
• Nightmare at Noon, 1942 (in The Treasury Star Parade, ed. by William A. Bacher)
• A Child is Born, 1942 (broadcast)
• They Burned the Books, 1942 (broadcast)

These works were published posthumously:

• Western Star, 1943 (unfinished)
• Twenty Five Short Stories, 1943
• America, 1944
• O'Halloran's Luck and Other Short Stories, 1944
• We Stand United, 1945 (radio scripts)
• The Bishop's Beggar, 1946
• The Last Circle, 1946
• Selected Stories, 1947
• From the Earth to the Moon, 1958