![]() This edition follows the expanded 1916 edition with its additional thirty-five poems, “The Spooniad”, and the epilogue includes an introduction by May Swenson and a biographical afterword. 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. “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. 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. ![]() ![]() ![]() Includes all 212 characters, providing 244. ![]() Originally published in “Reedy’s Mirror” from until Januand 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. A collection of unusual free-form poems that collectively describe the life of the fictional town of Spoon River. ![]()
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