Spoon River Anthology

By Edgar Lee Masters

Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee Masters
  • Release Date: 1915-01-01
  • Genre: Poetry
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Description

This book is 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.