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Spoon River Anthology: 100th Anniversary Edition Mass market paperbound - 2007

by Edgar Lee Masters; Introduction by John Hollander; Afterword by Ronald Primeau

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Here are Masters's dramatic monologues written in free verse about a fictional Midwestern town called Spoon River. The dead, "sleeping on the hill" in their village cemetery, awaken to tell the truth about their lives, toppling the myth of the moral superiority of small-town life.

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Here are Masters's dramatic monologues written in free verse about a fictional Midwestern town called Spoon River. The dead, "sleeping on the hill" in their village cemetery, awaken to tell the truth about their lives, toppling the myth of the moral superiority of small-town life.

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A landmark of American literature told in dramatic monologues that topples the myth of the moral superiority of small-town life

In 1915, Edgar Lee Masters published a book written in free verse about a fictional town called Spoon River, based on the Midwestern towns where he grew up. The shocking scandals and secret tragedies of Spoon River were immediately recognized by readers as authentic. Masters raises the dead "sleeping on the hill" in their village cemetery to tell the truth about their lives, and their testimony reveals that Spoon River is as undeniably corrupt and cruel as the big city, home to murderers, drunkards, crooked bankers, lechers, bitter wives, abusive husbands, failed dreamers--and a few good souls.

With an introduction by John Hollander and an afterword by Ronald Primeau

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  • Title Spoon River Anthology: 100th Anniversary Edition
  • Author Edgar Lee Masters; Introduction by John Hollander; Afterword by Ronald Primeau
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition International Ed
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Signet Book, New York, NY
  • Publication date 2007-07-03
  • Features Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780451530585 / 0451530586
  • Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.78 x 4.22 x 0.94 in (17.22 x 10.72 x 2.39 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008272034
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.52

About the author

As a young man, Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950) rebelled against what he believed to be the hypocrisy of small-town life and went to Chicago, where he practiced law for thirty years. He published eleven books of verses, plays, and essays before beginning his masterpiece, Spoon River Anthology (1915). Later, Masters, Carl Sandburg, and Vachel Lindsay initiated a poetic renaissance in the Midwest, with Chicago as its center.

John Hollander (1929-2013) was an acclaimed American poet and the Sterling Professor emeritus of English at Yale University. His books include Spectral Emanations: New and Selected Poems, Harp Lake, In Time and Place, and Blue Wine and Other Poems. Hollander was also the author of a number of critical works, including Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse.

Ronald Primeau is Professor of English and Director of the MA in Humanities at Central Michigan University. He has published books on Edgar Lee Masters, Herbert W. Martin, the literature of the American highway, and the rhetoric of television. He has edited works on Masters, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the dynamics of literary influence.

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