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Benet to Read Works, Speak on Poetry Here

Founder of Saturday Review Will Give Sever Hall Address

William Rose Benet, the distinguished American poet and author, will read from his poems and comment on them tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Sever 11. Benet graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1907, receiving an honorary degree of Master of Arts from Yale University in 1921.

With Christopher Morley he founded the Saturday Review of Literature in 1924. Benet won the National Play-wrighting Award for his play, "Day's End," produced in 1939, and in 1942 he earned the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His recently published work includes "American Ballads" and the narrative poem, "The Dust Which Is God."

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