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John Brown's Body

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Epic verse journey Abolitionist grit Civil war chorus History as mythmaking Anthemic rhetoric Grim reverence

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1928

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*John Brown's Body* is an American epic poem written by Stephen Vincent Benét in 1928. The poem's title references the radical abolitionist John Brown, who raided the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia in October 1859. Benét's poem covers the history of the American Civil War. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1929. It was written while Benét was living in Paris after receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1926.

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