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Spoon River Anthology
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Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology is a collection of free-verse poems spoken as epitaphs by the deceased residents of a fictional Midwestern town, revealing their interconnected lives and secrets. It suits readers interested in American poetry, small-town life, and dramatic monologue.
Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology (1915), 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.
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