Author : Edgar Lee Masters
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0486112101
DIVAn American poetry classic, in which former citizens of a mythical midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dreams of their lives. /div
Author : Jason Stacy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252052730
From Main Street to Stranger Things, how poetry changed our idea of small town life A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in 1915, Spoon River Anthology won praise from modernists while becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy charts the ways readers embraced, debated, and reshaped Masters's work in literary controversies and culture war skirmishes; in films and other media that over time saw the small town as idyllic then conflicted then surreal; and as the source of three archetypes—populist, elite, and exile—that endure across the landscape of American culture in the twenty-first century. A wide-ranging reconsideration of a literary landmark, Spoon River America tells the story of how a Midwesterner's poetry helped change a nation's conception of itself.
Author : Mary Amato
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab ®
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 154153073X
When Lacy wakes up dead in Westminster Cemetery, final resting place of Edgar Allan Poe, she's confused. It's the job of Sam, a young soldier who died in 1865, to teach her the rules of the afterlife and to warn her about Suppression—a punishment worse than death. Lacy desperately wants to leave the cemetery and find out how she died, but every soul is obligated to perform a job. Given the task of providing entertainment, Lacy proposes an open mic, which becomes a chance for the cemetery's residents to express themselves. But Lacy is in for another shock when surprising and long-buried truths begin to emerge.
Author : Edgar Lee Masters
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1789122449
The memoirs of one of Illinois’ great poets, author of Spoon River Anthology, with many vignettes of the Chicago Renaissance. 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. Richly illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. “Across Spoon River: An Autobiography is blunt and cranky about a life [Masters] saw as largely “scrappy and unmanageable.” Emphasizing life on his grandfather’s farm, his school days, his political battles, the workday world, and the growth of a poet’s mind through wide reading, the book is a valuable record of Masters’s work habits and offers considerable insight on his position as a critic and his place in American literature.”—Ronald Primeau, American National Biography
Author : Edgar Lee Masters
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 1919
Category : American poetry
ISBN :
Author : Edgar Lee Masters
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,33 MB
Release : 1997-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780684838250
A series of poetic monologues by 244 former inhabitants (real and imagined) of Spoon River, Ill.-- all are dead and from their graves speak their epitaphs.
Author : Edgar Lee Masters
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,56 MB
Release : 1930
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Edgar Lee Masters
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 19,30 MB
Release : 1997-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0812539044
Such is the lament of George Trimble, just one of the many good folk of Spoon River--late of the grave and raised from the dead to bear witness to life. Whether minister or judge, housewife or mayor, clerk or carpenter, banker, lawyer, or town drunk, these monologues form an unforgettable legacy of the private hopes, the dreams, and the aspirations, the successes and the failures, the jealousies and the betrayals, the prejudices and the disillusionments of the people of spoon river.
Author : Charles Aidman
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 50,53 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573615702
Charles Aidman, conceived from Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology Dramatic Platform Readings w/incidental music, songs Characters: 3 male, 2 female Bare Stage. Via musical interludes, we are introduced in a cemetery to the ghosts of those who were inhabitants of this town, and whose secrets have gone with them to the grave. There are 60 odd characterizations and vignettes in this constantly interesting entertainment offering an amazingly varied array of
Author : Edgar Lee Masters
Publisher :
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 24,95 MB
Release : 2018
Category : City and town life
ISBN : 9781420956733
"Originally published in "Reedy's Mirror" from May 29, 1914 until January 5, 1915 and then first in book form in 1915 with an expanded edition in 1916, "Spoon River Anthology" is a collection of poetry inspired by the tombstones of the dead in a small rural American town. There is no real Spoon River as the entire town and its inhabitants are fictional but much of the town and its deceased occupants are based in part on Masters' own childhood growing up in small towns in Illinois. "Spoon River Anthology" is Edgar Lee Masters' masterpiece, a collection of poetry that weaves a tapestry of the lives of a group of small-town Americans, which taken together reads like a novel critiquing the notion of the idyllic rural American life. A critical and financial success from its first publication, "Spoon River Anthology" is a truly original work of American literature, the likes of which there has not been before or since. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper; follows the expanded 1916 edition with its additional thirty-five poems, "The Spooniad", and the epilogue; and includes an introduction by May Swenson."
