Across Spoon River
Author | : Edgar Lee Masters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edgar Lee Masters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jason Stacy |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2021-05-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0252052730 |
From Main Street to Stranger Things, how poetry changed our idea of small town life A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in 1915, Spoon River Anthology won praise from modernists while becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy charts the ways readers embraced, debated, and reshaped Masters's work in literary controversies and culture war skirmishes; in films and other media that over time saw the small town as idyllic then conflicted then surreal; and as the source of three archetypes—populist, elite, and exile—that endure across the landscape of American culture in the twenty-first century. A wide-ranging reconsideration of a literary landmark, Spoon River America tells the story of how a Midwesterner's poetry helped change a nation's conception of itself.
Author | : Herbert K. Russell |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : 9780252026164 |
Entertainingly well-written and jargon free, unsentimental but compassionate, using heretofore unavailable material, including the first use of Masters' adult diaries, this is the first book-length biography of a tragic American poet who was his own worst enemy.
Author | : Edgar Lee Masters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780781282765 |
Bonded Leather binding
Author | : Edgar Lee Masters |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2012-03-02 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0486112101 |
DIVAn American poetry classic, in which former citizens of a mythical midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dreams of their lives. /div
Author | : Kevin Wallick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2019-03-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781721851805 |
Growing up poor in the 1940's farming along the Spoon River, the Wallick children learned to look out for each other, using their imaginations and playfulness to soften the edges of lives filled with hard work and an alcoholic parent, escaping to the safety of the woods, streams, and river whenever possible. The adventures of Chuck, his seven siblings, and neighborhood kids galore in the countryside and farmstead capture the innocent, but often dangerous, mischief of the time. The facts of the stories told are as true as memories allow with just the details filled in with imagination and seasoned by the flavors of the land. Chuck Wallick came close to getting killed many times over his life, ten by my count with more than once the others present as witness thinking he was sure enough dead. Other times things were close to going the other way and might have easy enough. That I am his son and passing on his stories as told me is something of a spoiler, but the protagonist of these stories survives and makes it through his trials having lived fuller than most and with stories matched by only a few.
Author | : Edgar Lee Masters |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2004-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0743255070 |
A CLASSIC IN AMERICAN POETRY... When Spoon River Anthology was published in 1915 it garnered immediate national attention for its truth and its shocking transgression of societal mores. 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. 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. Beneath the midwestern values of honesty, community, family, hard work, and chastity, Spoon River Anthology reveals the disillusionment and corruption in modern life. With the publication of Spoon River Anthology Masters exploded the powerful myth that small-town America was a social utopia. Here for the first time was a community that people recognized in its wholeness and complexity. 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.
Author | : Brenda Langton |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2012-04-01 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 9781452939162 |
Presents a collection of organic recipes from Minneapolis's landmark Spoonriver restaurant, featuring options for appetizers, soups, salads, entrâees, breads, and desserts.
Author | : Edgar Lee Masters (Dichter, USA) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Edgar Lee Masters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1930 |
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