Spoon River Anthology, with a New Introduction by May Swenson
Author | : Edgar Lee Masters |
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Author | : Edgar Lee Masters |
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Author | : Edgar Lee Masters |
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Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : City and town life |
ISBN | : 9781420956733 |
"Originally published in "Reedy's Mirror" from May 29, 1914 until January 5, 1915 and then first in book form in 1915 with an expanded edition in 1916, "Spoon River Anthology" is a collection of poetry inspired by the tombstones of the dead in a small rural American town. There is no real Spoon River as the entire town and its inhabitants are fictional but much of the town and its deceased occupants are based in part on Masters' own childhood growing up in small towns in Illinois. "Spoon River Anthology" is Edgar Lee Masters' masterpiece, a collection of poetry that weaves a tapestry of the lives of a group of small-town Americans, which taken together reads like a novel critiquing the notion of the idyllic rural American life. A critical and financial success from its first publication, "Spoon River Anthology" is a truly original work of American literature, the likes of which there has not been before or since. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper; follows the expanded 1916 edition with its additional thirty-five poems, "The Spooniad", and the epilogue; and includes an introduction by May Swenson."
Author | : May Swenson |
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Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1972 |
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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 | : 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 | : Adriano Prosperi |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2018-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004368671 |
A history of "justice" and its iconography, that gives a full account of the ways that justice has been described, portrayed and imagined through the centuries, and how it looks like today.
Author | : Sally Hirsh-Dickinson |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2011-12-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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The first full-length scholarly study of Peyton Place, Grace Metalious's classic story of New England indiscretion
Author | : Joanne Marshall Mauldin |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781572334946 |
Maudlin challenges much of the existing biographical material on the writer and offers a fresh view on the final years of his life. Through the utilization of primary and secondary sources including letters, interviews, recordings, and newspaper clippings, Mauldin offers a candid account of the life of Thomas Wolfe from the time of his visit to North Carolina in 1937 until his untimely death in 1938. Mauldin chronicles details of Wolfe's shocking change in publishers and his complex relationships with his editors, family, friends, and his mistress. This examination goes beyond Wolfe's life and extends into the period after his death, revealing details about the reaction of family and friends to the passing of this literary legend, as well as the cavalierpublishing practices of his posthumous editors. Mauldin's narrative is unique from other biographical accounts of Thomas Wolfe in that it focuses solely on the final years in the life of the author.
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Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Ethan Lewis |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2013-01-16 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1443845779 |
“It is tremendously important that great poetry be written. It makes no jot of difference who writes it.” Ezra Pound’s remark makes some polemic, but still more prescriptive sense, as evaluative of our present situation. Some great poetry (never mind the far larger quantity of trash) is emerging – from countless coteries of devoted artists, quite plausibly in your community. This anthology brings to press fifteen exemplary poets from Springfield, Illinois and its environs. Yet though endorsing their wider popularity, this critical anthology advances an interpretative method. We can garner much from reading the justly famed poets reflexively, with those lesser known in our midst. Any specific poem of the highest quality is informed by, and informs through, comparison with works of like caliber. Indeed, the test of an obscure gem inheres in critical comparison. And relations never run one way. One may well harbor keener appreciation of Wallace Stevens in light of certain works by Corrine Frisch – just as Keats and Stevens mutually inform one another. The central tenet of this text holds, with Eliot and Frost – a not so unlikely coupling as might be thought, hence a perfect pair to introduce the author’s modus operandi – that we read relationally. “No artist . . . has his meaning alone.” “We read C the better to read D; D, the better to go back and get something more out of A. Progress is not the aim, but circulation: to get among the poems where they hold each other apart in their places as the stars do.”