Author: Stephen Vincent Benet

Cited by

• Margaret Willey (1)
  • IN: Beetle Boy (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A dreaming man is a haunted man.
    FROM: "John Brown's Body", (1928), Poem, US
• Sharyn McCrumb (1)
  • IN: MacPherson's Lament (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Why were they all going out to war? He brooded a moment. It wasn’t slavery. That stale red-herring of Yankee knavery. Nor even states-rights, at least not solely, But something so dim that it must be holy.
    FROM: John Brown’s Body, Book 2, (1928), Book, US
• John Katzenbach (1)
  • IN: The Traveler (1987) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Well, I never heard of the dev--of your claiming American citizenship," said Dan'l Webster with surprise. "And who with better right?" said the stranger with one of his terrible smiles. "When the first wrong was done to the first Indian, I was there. When the first slaver put out for the Congo, I stood on her deck. Am I not in your books and stories and beliefs, from the first settlements on? Am I not spoken of still in every church in New England? 'Tis true the North claims me for a Southerner, and the South for a Northerner, but I am neither. I am merely an honest American like yourself -- and of the best descent -- for, to tell the truth, Mr Webster, though I don't like to boast of it, my name is older in this country than yours..."
    FROM: The Devil and Daniel Webster, (1936), Short story, US
• Connie Willis (1)
  • IN: Lincoln's Dreams (1987) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They bred such horses in Virginia then, Horses that were remembered after death And buried not so far from Christian ground That if their sleeping riders should arise They could not witch them from the earth again And ride a printless course along the grass With the old manage and light ease of hand.
    FROM: John Brown's Body, (1928), Poem, US