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Across Spoon River

Across Spoon River( )
Author: Masters, Edgar Lee
Introduction by: Primeau, Robert
Series title:Prairie State Bks.
ISBN:978-0-252-06051-9
Publication Date:Jan 1991
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $47.99
Book Description:

This intimate and provocative autobiography, first published in 1936, reveals the innermost thoughts of a great American poet. Edgar Lee Masters was a transitional figure in American literature with one foot planted in the nineteenth century and the other firmly placed on the path of what we now think of as the modern period. Masters expounds on ......

Book Details
Pages:456
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.24 x 22.86 x 3.302 cm
Book Weight:0.666 Kilograms
Author Biography
Masters, Edgar Lee (Author)
Edgar Lee Masters, 1868 - 1950 The Kansas-born poet of "Spoon River Anthology" (written in 1915), Edgar Lee Masters, wrote almost 50 volumes but continues to be known for only that one, so great was its extraordinary success. Masters was born on August 23, 1868. His characters created for the verses (which are short postmortem monologues in epitaph form) were borrowed from the old Greek Anthology. By invading the realm of social criticism usually reserved for prose fiction, "Spoon River" anticipated the mood of Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio" and Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street." Masters lived near Spoon River for 11 years; it was his source of inspiration for this work. The 244 characters in the Anthology lay bare, in their own epitaphs, the hypocrisies, jealousies, frustrations and infrequent triumphs of their lives.

Masters is often regarded as the last bestselling American poet. "Spoon River" has been adapted into a popular stage version that is frequently performed at colleges, high schools, and community theater.

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