Edgar Lee Masters (Garnett, Kansas, Aug - Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, March 5, ) 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/5(). When Spoon River Anthology was published in , Edgar Lee Masters shattered the myth of small-town America as the bastion of American virtue. In his thinly veiled fictional town of Spoon River, situated in central Illinois near Lewistown, where Masters grew up, the honest, hardworking, chaste, and churchgoing live amidst corrupt bankers, abusive husbands, unfulfilled wives, sexual deviants, and . Spoon River Anthology. Edgar Lee Masters. In Masters’s collection of post-mortem autobiographical “epitaphs,” former citizens of the fictional Spoon River, Illinois tell us the truth about their lives—with the honesty no fear of consequences enables.
The innovative free verse collection of small-town life that made Edgar Lee Masters a legend A literary sensation when it appeared in , Spoon River Anthology earned Edgar Lee Masters comparisons to T. S. Eliot and Walt Whitman. The characters who speak here tarnish the pure image of their Midwestern hamlet by holding forth from the grave with tales of illicit love affairs, betrayed. The Spoon River Anthology by the late poet Edgar Lee Masters has become a classic and must reading for anyone who is interested in poetry. I was only slightly knowledgeable on this unique Spoon River book of free-verse monologues before reading this text. A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor. It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. This poem is in the public domain. Born in Kansas in , Edgar Lee Masters wrote several collections of verse, including the popular Spoon River Anthology in
Masters, Edgar Lee, Title: Spoon River Anthology Credits: Updated: Edgar Lee Masters was a modernist poet from the 20th century who wrote a famous group of over free verse poems called 'The Spoon River Anthology.'. Analyze and summarize two of the 'Spoon. Spoon River Anthology is a collection of poems written in free verse by Edgar Lee Masters, an American dramatist, lawyer, and poet. They provide a holistic inventory of the multitude of life narratives making up a fictional town called Spoon River, loosely based on a river that wound around Masters’s hometown, Lewistown, Illinois.
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