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Spoon River Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Edgar Lee Masters

Published: 1992-10-08
Paperback : 144 pages
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In Spoon River Anthology, the American poet Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950) created a series of compelling free-verse monologues in which former citizens of a mythical Midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dream of their lives. First published in book ...

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In Spoon River Anthology, the American poet Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950) created a series of compelling free-verse monologues in which former citizens of a mythical Midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dream of their lives. First published in book form in 1915, the Anthology was the crowning achievement of Masters' career as a poet, and a work that would become a landmark of 20th-century American literature.
In these pages, no less than 214 individual voices are heard — some in no more than a dozen moving lines. Alternately plaintive, anguished, enigmatic, angry, and contemptuous, the voices of Spoon River, although distinctively small-town Americans, evoke themes of love and hope, disappointment and despair that are universal in their resonance. This American classic is reprinted here from the authoritative 1915 edition.

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1. Invite each club member to select a poem and read it to the group. Then discuss the character.
2. Ask if members would like to live in Spoon River Village. Why or why not.
3.Can you distinguish the more positive characters from the negative ones. Why do you think the poet made this division?
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  "Spoon River Anthology,by Edgar Lee Masters"by Lois . (see profile) 10/28/15

This American classic Written 100 years ago introduces the characters speaking in free verse from "The Hill", a cemetery in Spoon river Village , a mythical town in the Midwest but known to all as Lewistown... (read more)

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