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Mr. Benét was born on February 2, 1886, in Fort Hamilton, New York, United States. He was the son of James Walker (a career military officer) and Frances Neill Rose Benét.
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Mr. Benét was born on February 2, 1886, in Fort Hamilton, New York, United States. He was the son of James Walker (a career military officer) and Frances Neill Rose Benét.
He was educated at The Albany Academy in Albany, NY, and at Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Philosophy in 1907.
Mr. Benét was a freelance writer, mostly poetry, from 1907 to 1911. He was an office boy for Century magazine during 1911-1914 and from 1914 till 1918 he served as an assistant editor. Since 1919 Mr. Benét was an advertising writer in New York City. He became a staff member of Nation’s Business, Washington, DC, in 1920. The same year he becema a co-founder of Literary Review.
In 1924 William Benét was a co-founder of Saturday Review of Literature, New York City, and served as its associate editor during 1924-1929, contributing editor and author of column “The Phoenix Nest” between 1929 and 1950.
Throughout his poetry, Benet often synthesized opposites such as the elevated and the ordinary, the sacred and the sensual, and the lyrical and the prosaic. Joining classical allusions and bold types, he attached legendary significance to daily experience.
Military service: U. S. Signal Corps, second lieutenant in aviation section, 1918.
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Quotations: "Poet should produce all his poems on single broadsheets and go through the city every week tossing them in doors, like circus or furniture-sale announcements.”
William Benét had deeply humanistic values as well as profound religious faith.
During his youth, Mr. Benét planned to follow his father into the military and attended Albany Academy. While there, he began to write, discovering, as he later noted, that he had “inherited from his father a love of French verse forms, and so began — with the aid of Tom Hood’s Rhymester — fashioning rondeaus, triolets, and ballads, and printing a litter of this very bad verse in the school paper.”
He married Teresa Frances Thompson on September 3, 1912. She died on January 26, 1919.. Mr. Benét married for the second time Elinor Wylie on October 5, 1923. His second wife died in 1928. On March 15, 1932, William Benét married Lora Baxter, but they divorced in 1937. Finaly, he married Maijorie Flack on June 21, 1941. It was his 4th marriage.
William Benét had three children from the first marriage: James Walker Benét, Frances Rosemary Benét, and Kathleen Anne Benét.
