by Edgar Lee Masters · Einaudi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806219611
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Antologia di Spoon River is a collection of poems by the American author Edgar Lee Masters, offering a panoramic view of life in a small town through the voices of its deceased inhabitants. This edition, published by Einaudi, includes the original English text along with the Italian translation, allowing readers to appreciate the work in both languages. The anthology, which has been translated by Fernanda Pivano and discovered by Cesare Pavese, has been adapted for theater, music, and radio, and has been the subject of study by generations.
Edgar Lee Masters was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology (1915), The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness, An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems. In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman.
