"Spoon River Anthology" by Edgar Lee Masters is a collection of free verse poems published in the early 20th century. The book presents a poignant tapestry of ...

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A series of compelling free-verse monologues in which former citizens of a mythical Midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and ...

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Edgar Lee Masters was a Chicago attorney who, long before Lake Woebegone, wrote of the mythical village of Spoon River, IL. Specifically, of the real stories of ...

Nov 16, 2022 · Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters. Contents: A Altman, Herman Armstrong, Hannah Arnett, Harold Arnett, Justice Atheist, The Village Atherton, Lucius.

In Masters's collection of post-mortem autobiographical “epitaphs,” 244 former citizens of the fictional Spoon River, Illinois tell us the truth about their ...

A collection of poems from the graveyard of a rural Illinois town, Spoon River Anthology poignantly captures the politics, love, betrayals, alliances, hopes, ...

Spoon River Anthology." "The Natural Child of WaltWhitman, the only poet with true Americanism in his bones." New York Times. " Places him in the unique ...

When Spoon River Anthology was published in 1915, Edgar Lee Masters shattered the myth of small-town America as the bastion of American virtue.