Spoon River Anthology

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Book TitleSpoon RIVER Anthology
Original LanguageEnglish
PublisherCollier Macmillan
Item Length8.7in.
Publication Year1962
Typepoetry
FormatTrade Paperback
LanguageEnglish
Era1910s
AuthorEdgar Lee Masters
GenrePoetry
Country/Region Of ManufactureUnited States
TopicGeneral
Item Width5.5in.
Item Weight5.6 Oz
Number Of Pages320 Pages

Spoon River Anthology (1915) is a collection of short free verse poems by Edgar Lee Masters. The poems collectively narrate the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the Spoon River, which ran near Masters' home town of Lewistown, Illinois. The aim of the poems is to demystify rural and small town American life. The collection includes 212 separate characters, in all providing 244 accounts of their lives, losses, and manners of death. Many of the poems contain cross-references that create a candid tapestry of the community. (Wikipedia)

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