Spoon River Anthology Paperback - 2008
by Edgar Lee Masters; Introduction by Jerome Loving; Notes by Jerome Loving
The innovative free verse collection of small-town life thatmade Edgar Lee Masters a legend
A literary sensation when it appeared in 1915,Spoon River Anthology earned Edgar Lee Masters comparisonsto T. S. Eliot and Walt Whitman. The characters who speak heretarnish the pure image of their Midwestern hamlet by holding forthfrom the grave with tales of illicit love affairs, betrayed confidences,political corruption, and miserable marriages. The first serious workof psychological naturalism, this artful indictment of small-townhypocrisy influenced Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, and otherluminaries.
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A literary sensation when it appeared in 1915, Spoon River Anthology earned Edgar Lee Masters comparisons to T. S. Eliot and Walt Whitman. The characters who speak here tarnish the pure image of their Midwestern hamlet by holding forth from the grave with tales of illicit love affairs, betrayed confidences, political corruption, and miserable marriages. The first serious work of psychological naturalism, this artful indictment of small-town hypocrisy influenced Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, and other luminaries.
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- Title Spoon River Anthology
- Author Edgar Lee Masters; Introduction by Jerome Loving; Notes by Jerome Loving
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date 2008-05-01
- Features Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143105152 / 0143105159
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 0.8 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects American poetry - 20th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008003519
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.52
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