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Spoon River Anthology (1915) is a collection of short free verse poems by Edgar Lee Masters. The poems collectively narrate the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the Spoon River, which ran near Masters's home town of Lewistown, Illinois.
The Spoon River is a 147-mile-long (237 km) tributary of the Illinois River in west-central Illinois in the United States. The river drains largely agricultural prairie country between Peoria and Galesburg. The river is noted for giving its name to the fictional Illinois town in the 1915 poetry work Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters ...
Apr 1, 1998 · Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
The author of 40 books of poetry and prose, Masters is best remembered for his great collection Spoon River Anthology (1915), a sequence of over 200 free-verse epitaphs spoken from the cemetery of the town of Spoon River.
In his thinly veiled fictional town of Spoon River, situated in central Illinois near Lewistown, where Masters grew up, the honest, hardworking, chaste, and churchgoing live amidst corrupt bankers, abusive husbands, unfulfilled wives, sexual deviants, and failed dreamers.
Spoon River Anthology, poetry collection, the major work of Edgar Lee Masters, published in 1915. It was inspired by the epigrams in the Greek Anthology. The Spoon River Anthology is a collection of 245 free-verse epitaphs in the form of monologues.
Spoon River, river in west-central Illinois, U.S. It rises at the confluence of the West Fork Spoon and East Fork Spoon rivers in Stark county and flows south and southwest to a point west of Lewistown, where it turns southeast, joining the Illinois River opposite Havana after a course of about 160.
Apr 22, 2015 · There was irresistible disgust. He left me to my fate with Dr. Meyers. Curtis Fox: 100 years ago this April in 1915, Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters was published. In more than 200 poems, the denizens of a mythical mid-western town speak to us from the grave.
Apr 1, 2011 · Publisher. New York : Macmillan Co. Collection. lincolncollection; americana. Contributor. Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection. Language. English. Appeared from week to week, beginning with May 20, 1914, in Reedy's mirror.
