Spoon River Anthology

by Edgar Lee Masters

Overview

Spoon River Anthology (1915), by Edgar Lee Masters, is 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. The poems were originally published in the magazine Reedy's Mirror.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014399968
Publisher:	Philtre Libre
Publication date:	05/08/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	492,147
File size:	87 KB

About the Author

Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868, Garnett, Kansas – March 5, 1950, Melrose Park, Pennsylvania) 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.