![]() ![]() These poems form a fascinating story, and I recommend reading the entire book. Through Masters’ poetry you become intimately acquainted with the residents of Spoon River and see how their lives intertwined. Superseding seventy-five years of misdirected critical commentary, the annotated Spoon River Anthology comprehends a poet and his towering work in an entirely new way. The Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters is a collection of autobiographical epitaphs. Hallwas's approach combines cultural, biographical, philosophical, psychoanalytic, mythic, and symbolic insights-and concludes with a stunning reassessment of "Our New Poet." An extensive introduction links the poems to Whitman and reveals the influence of Browning, Goethe, and Spinoza on Masters. Extensive annotations identify the people whose lives inspired the 243 poetic accounts of frustration, violence, struggle, and triumph that shocked American readers. Hallwas directs a new edition that enriches and interprets Masters's classic for a new generation of admirers. About the BookOne of the most striking and original achievements in American poetry, Spoon River Anthology probed the social background of the small-town world that Edgar Lee Masters loved and hated-and finally transmuted into powerful literary art. ![]()
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