JAMES SHORE'S DAUGHTERStephen Vincent BenétDoubleday, Doran ($2.50).
Had he lived in the 18th Century, Poet Stephen Vincent Benét would almost certainly not have written in verse. Many a reader of his Pulitzer-Prizewinning poem, John Brown's Body, had an uneasy feeling that it was about time "poetry" was redefined. But many a reader of James Shore's Daughter will wish that Poet Benét had not taken a vacation in prose. What Lewis Mumford (see below) would call "fatally readable," James Shore's Daughter has the faint odor of a Richard Harding Davis novel that has...
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