Spoon River Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Edgar Lee Masters
from Dover Publications
HENRY got me with child, Knowing that I could not bring forth life Without losing my own. In my youth therefore I entered the portals of dust. Traveler, it is believed in the village where I lived That Henry loved me with a husband's love But I proclaim from the dust That he slew me to gratify his hatred.
Spoon River Anthology (Signet Classics)
by Edgar Lee Masters
from Signet Classics
Here are Masters's dramatic monologues written in free verse about a fictional Midwestern town called Spoon River. The dead, "sleeping on the hill" in their village cemetery, awaken to tell the truth about their lives, toppling the myth of the moral superiority of small-town life.
Spoon River Anthology (Penguin Classics)
by Edgar Lee Masters
from Penguin Classics
The innovative free verse collection of small-town life that made Edgar Lee Masters a legend
A literary sensation when it appeared in 1915, Spoon River Anthology earned Edgar Lee Masters comparisons to T. S. Eliot and Walt Whitman. The characters who speak here tarnish the pure image of their Midwestern hamlet by holding forth from the grave with tales of illicit love affairs, betrayed confidences, political corruption, and miserable marriages. The first serious work of psychological naturalism, this artful indictment of small-town hypocrisy influenced Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, and other luminaries.
Spoon River Anthology
by Edgar Lee Masters
from Neeland Media LLC
"Spoon River Anthology" is a collection of poetry taken from the tombstones of the dead in a small rural American town. There is of course no Spoon River as the entire town and its inhabitants are fictional. "Spoon River Anthology" is Masters\'s masterpiece, a collection of poetry that reveals the posthumous confessions of the transgressions of a group of small-town Americans. Together this collection reads like a novel exposing the fallacy in the idea of the rural American utopia. "Spoon River Anthology" is a truly original work of American literature.
Vachel Lindsay: A Poet in America
The Domesday Book
by Edgar Lee Masters
from Kessinger Publishing, LLC
1921. A collection of verse from the American poet and novelist who practiced law for nearly thirty years. He is best remembered for Spoon River Anthology, a series of poems about his boyhood experiences in western Illinois; the book that would make his reputation and become one of the most popular and widely known works in all of American literature. Most of the poems in this volume have a murder or mystery theme. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
Spoon River Anthology
by Edgar Lee Masters
from BiblioBazaar
The Golden Fleece of California
by Edgar Lee Masters
from Turtle Point Press
Spoon River Anthology
by Lee Edgar Masters
from IndyPublish
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