Beginning with an invocation to "The American Muse", another part revolves around the love triangle between aristocratic southerners Lucy Weatherby, Sally Dupre and Clay Wingate.
Minor characters in this work include Bailey, Jake Diefer and Luke Breckinridge. One of its focuses is on Melora Vilas whose family is trying to avoid the war by living in the backwoods and who falls in love with Connecticut intellectual Jack Ellyat. Beginning with an invocation to "The American Muse", another part revolves around the love triangle between aristocratic southerners Lucy Weatherby, Sally Dupre and Clay Wingate. For ten points, identify this Pulitzer Prize-winning epic poem about the Civil War written by Stephen Vincent Benet.
Minor characters in this work include Bailey, Jake Diefer and Luke Breckinridge.
John Brown’s Body