Spoon River Anthology (THE GREAT CLASSICS LIBRARY)

The Spoon River Anthology (1915), a collection of short free-form poems that collectively describe the life of the fictional small town of Spoon River, named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters' home town. The collection includes two hundred and twelve separate characters, all providing two-hundred forty-four accounts of their lives and losses.

"It is not strange that any one reading this much exploited book, with its ambitious 'creation'—or rather, recreation —'of a whole commu...