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Spoon River Anthology

by Edgar Lee Masters

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Spoon River Anthology is a 1915 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's 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.

First published 1919 348 pages
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DDC 811.52 LCC PS-3525.00000000.A83 S5 1992 Poetry (poetic works by one author)
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ISBN 9781450584357 English
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