Spoon River Anthology: By Edgar Lee Masters - Illustrated

ISBN-10
1521899398
ISBN-13
9781521899397
Series
Spoon River Anthology
Pages
119
Language
English
Published
2017-07-21
Author
Edgar Lee Edgar Lee Masters

Description

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology (1915), by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short free-form poems that collectively narrates the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters' home town. The aim of the poems is to demystify the rural, small town American life. The collection includes two hundred and twelve separate characters, all providing two-hundred forty-four accounts of their lives and losses. The poems were originally published in the magazine Reedy's Mirror.

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