In Spoon River Anthology, the American poet Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950) created 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 ...
The collection includes two hundred and twelve separate characters, all providing two-hundred forty-four accounts of their lives and losses
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
The freshness of this landmark work has not diminished, and Spoon River Anthology remains an American classic.
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