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 ...
Goldman. *. WHAT will you do when you come to die, If all your life long you have rejected Jesus, And know as you lie there, He is not your friend?" Over and over I said, I, the revivalist. Ah, yes! but there are friends and friends.
The collection includes two hundred and twelve separate characters, all providing two-hundred forty-four accounts of their lives and losses. (wikipedia)
The dead arise from their sleep in the cemetery of a small town to tell their individual stories about an entire community caught in a web of scandal, sin, and vice in the early twentieth century. Reissue.
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 ...
As such, the Spoon River Anthology offers a reasonable authentic, if somewhat dramatized, account of how life went by in small town America during the early 20th century."--Page 4 of cover
One of the most striking and original achievements in American poetry is now available in a remarkable edition that comprehends the poet and his book in an entirely new way.This...
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.
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This American classic is reprinted here from the authoritative 1915 edition.
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An American poetry classic, in which former citizens of a mythical midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dreams of their lives.
I wrote him a letter asking him for old times' sakeTo discharge my sick boy from the army;But maybe he couldn't read it.Then I went to town and had James Garber,Who wrote beautifully, write him a letter.But maybe that was lost in the mails ...
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The Spoon River Anthology is a classic collection of poems by Edgar Lee Masters, with verses dedicated and named for members of a fictional small American town.
Here are Masters's dramatic monologues written in free verse about a fictional Midwestern town called Spoon River.
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.
Reproduction of the original.
Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short free verse 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' ...
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