by Edgar Lee Masters · Collier Macmillan Publishers · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780020700104
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Spoon River Anthology is a collection of poems by Edgar Lee Masters, originally published in 1915. The work presents a series of poetic monologues that portray the lives of the inhabitants of a fictional town called Spoon River, through their epitaphs. The poems explore themes such as love, death, injustice, and hypocrisy, offering a critical and realistic vision of early 20th-century American rural society.
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.
