Spoon River Anthology
Book Details
Author(s)Edgar Lee Masters
ISBN / ASIN1503315231
ISBN-139781503315235
CategoryPaperback
MarketplaceCanada 🇨🇦
Description
“To this generation I would say:
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.”
--- Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
Spoon River Anthology (1915), by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short free-form poems that collectively narrates the epitaphs of the residents of a fictional small town of Spoon River, named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters' home town. The aim of the poems is to demystify the rural, small town American life. 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.
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.”
--- Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
Spoon River Anthology (1915), by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short free-form poems that collectively narrates the epitaphs of the residents of a fictional small town of Spoon River, named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters' home town. The aim of the poems is to demystify the rural, small town American life. 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.
