Spoon River Anthology With An Introduction By May Swenson

Author : Edgar Lee Masters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781420956733
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spoon River Anthology (with an Introduction by May Swenson) written by Edgar Lee Masters and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."

Author : Edgar Lee Masters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spoon River Anthology. With a New Introd. by May Swenson written by Edgar Lee Masters and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edgar Lee Masters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spoon River Anthology written by Edgar Lee Masters and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edgar Lee Masters
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775458091
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spoon River Anthology written by Edgar Lee Masters and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-of-a-kind masterpiece is a classic of American literature. In Spoon River Anthology, Kansas-born poet and playwright Edgar Lee Masters channels the imagined voices of the deceased men, women, and children buried in a cemetery in rural Illinois. Haunting and ethereal, inspiring and unforgettable, these poems will remain etched in readers' memories.

Author : Edgar Lee Masters
Publisher : Hesperus Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843911081
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spoon River Anthology written by Edgar Lee Masters and published by Hesperus Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: MacMillan, 1915.

Author : Edgar Lee Masters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spoon River Anthology written by Edgar Lee Masters and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short free verse poems that collectively narrates the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters' 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 manner of death. Many of the poems contain cross-references that create an unabashed tapestry of the community.

Author : Edgar Lee Masters
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781434478832
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spoon River Anthology [Facsimile Edition] written by Edgar Lee Masters and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of unusual free-form poems that collectively describe the life of the fictional town of Spoon River. Includes all 212 characters, providing 244 epitaphs of dead citizens, delivered by the dead themselves.

Author : Edgar Masters
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530372751
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spoon River Anthology (Original Version) written by Edgar Masters and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950) is a series of free-verse poetical monologues in which the dead citizens of a Midwestern town speak from the grave of hopes and dreams of their lives. This book represent the masterpiece of E. L. Masters, and one of the most relevant works of 20th-century American literature. The touching and desperate words told by the dead of Spoon River evoke love and hope, disappointment and despair, becoming universal in their resonance.

Author : Edgar Lee Masters
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780808508731
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spoon River Anthology written by Edgar Lee Masters and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1961 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Os 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.

Author : Edgar Lee Masters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781539502241
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Spoon River Anthology (Deseret Alphabet Edition) written by Edgar Lee Masters and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. Over the course of his literary career, he published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman. Spoon River Anthology originated as a series of poems published pseudonymously in Reedy's Mirror in 1914. Publication as a book followed in 1915, and a second, enlarged edition came out in 1916. It consists of a series of "epitaphs" for residents of the cemetery in the fictional Spoon River, Illinois, both celebrating and criticizing small town life in the United States around the turn of the 20th Century. This book is in the Deseret Alphabet, a phonetic alphabet for writing English developed in the mid-19th century at the University of Deseret (now the University of Utah).