Comprised of distinctly modern poems that collectively read as a novel, Spoon River Anthology is the story of a quiet midwestern town whose truths and contradictions are celebrated by its dead. Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology purports to be a collection of epitaphs from the graveyard of a village called Spoon River. Here for the first time was a community that people recognized in its wholeness and complexity. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Spoon River Anthology. With the publication of Spoon River Anthology Masters exploded the powerful myth that small-town America was a social utopia. Complete summary of Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology. University of Illinois Press, 234 pp., 110.00 27. Beneath the midwestern values of honesty, community, family, hard work, and chastity, Spoon River Anthology reveals the disillusionment and corruption in modern life. Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town. The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. Here is the respected doctor, jailed for swindling here is the chaste wife, rapt with desire here is the pastor, angry and resentful here is the quiet man, filled with unrequited love and devotion. Edgar Lee Masters - Born in Kansas in 1868, Edgar Lee Masters wrote several collections of verse, including the popular Spoon River Anthology in 1915. A collection of poems from the graveyard of a rural Illinois town, Spoon River Anthology poignantly captures the politics, love, betrayals, alliances, hopes, and failures of this small American town. When Spoon River Anthology was published in 1915 it garnered immediate national attention for its truth and its shocking transgression of societal mores.
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