Spoon River Anthology
1915
First Published
4.05
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257
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A series of poetic monologues by 244 former inhabitants (real and imagined) of Spoon River, Ill.-- all are dead and from their graves speak their epitaphs.
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Author
Edgar Lee Masters
Author · 6 books
Edgar Lee Masters (Garnett, Kansas, August 23, 1868 - Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, 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.
