Spoon River Anthology - Softcover

Masters, Edgar Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1503315231 ISBN 13: 9781503315235

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

“To this generation I would say:
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.”
--- Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

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 a fictional small town of Spoon River, 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868 - March 5, 1950) was an American poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems. In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1503315231
• ISBN 13: 9781503315235
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238