In Spoon River Anthology, Kansas-born poet and playwright Edgar Lee Masters channels the imagined voices of the deceased men, women, and children buried in a cemetery in rural Illinois.
A collection of poetry inspired by the tombstones of the dead in a small rural American town.
Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short free verse poems that collectively narrates the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters' ...
Originally published: New York: MacMillan, 1915.
... Spoon River Anthology , be aware of the following concepts as you read : 1. Setting : Imagine a graveyard in Spoon River , Illinois . It is a fictitious , small town , where everyone knows everyone . Many of the characters are actual ...
A collection of unusual free-form poems that collectively describe the life of the fictional town of Spoon River. Includes all 212 characters, providing 244 epitaphs of dead citizens, delivered by the dead themselves.
The freshness of this landmark work has not diminished, and Spoon River Anthology remains an American classic.
This book represent the masterpiece of E. L. Masters, and one of the most relevant works of 20th-century American literature.
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.
