This one-of-a-kind masterpiece is a classic of American literature. In Spoon River Anthology, Kansas-born poet and playwright Edgar Lee Masters channels the imagined voices of the deceased men, women, and children buried in a cemetery in rural Illinois. Haunting and ethereal, inspiring and unforgettable, these poems will remain etched in readers' memories.
The collection includes two hundred and twelve separate characters, all providing two-hundred forty-four accounts of their lives and losses
This American classic is reprinted here from the authoritative 1915 edition.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Martin Barker and Roger Sabin, in The Lasting of the Mohicans: History of an American Myth (1995), note how little attention literary critics have paid to James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans (1826) in spite of its ...
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.
Beatty. I was a lawyer like Harmon VVhitney Or Kinsey Keene or Garrison Standard, For I tried the rights of property, Although by lamp-light, for thirty years, In that poker room in the opera house. And I say to you that Life's a ...
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The freshness of this landmark work has not diminished, and Spoon River Anthology remains an American classic.
This complete and unabridged Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic(tm) of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology features an extensive glossary and reader's notes to help readers better understand and fully appreciate Masters' work ...
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, losses, and manner of death.