Spoon River Anthology (Masterplots II: Poetry Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Edgar Lee Masters
- First Published: 1915
- Type of Work: Poetic sequence
- Genres: Free verse, Poetry, Lyric sequence, Epitaph
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Midwest, Poetry or poets, 1910’s, Death or dying, Small-town life, Banks, bankers, or banking, Cemeteries
- Locales: Midwest (U.S.), Spoon River, Midwest (U.S.)
The Poem
Spoon River Anthology is a book-length collection of 243 free verse epitaphs, in which the citizens buried in the graveyard of a fictional Midwestern town (Spoon River) talk about their lives, their failures, their loves, their philosophies, their triumphs, their conflicts, their secrets, and their crimes. Edgar Lee Masters published many of these pieces in Reedy’s Mirror under the pseudonym Webster Ford (for whom Masters composed the epitaph that concludes Spoon River Anthology) during 1914; with encouragement, however, Masters collected his...
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