Spoon River anthology
An extraordinary book, which will delight some readers, as its cynicism--or realism--will offend others. Each poem is an autobiographical epitaph of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after a town near the author's home town, which endeavors to reveal life in rural America.
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- Full title :Spoon River anthology / Edar Lee Masters ; woodcuts by John Ross and Clare Romano Ross.
Summary
An extraordinary book, which will delight some readers, as its cynicism--or realism--will offend others. Each poem is an autobiographical epitaph of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after a town near the author's home town, which endeavors to reveal life in rural America.
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- Publication Date:©1944
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1944
The Physical Object
- Description:xiv, 297 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0020700105, 9780020700104
- oclc:ocm00289437
- LC Classification:PS3525.A83
- Dewey Decimal:811.52
Table of Contents
Herman Altman -- Hannah Armstrong -- Harold Arnett -- Lucius Atherton -- John Ballard -- Amanda Barker -- Pauline Barrett -- Ezra Bartlett -- Marie Bateson -- Tom Beatty -- Isaiah Beethoven -- Hon. Henry Bennett -- Nicholas Bindle -- Mrs. Charles Bliss -- A.D. Blood -- Wendell P. Bloyd -- Richard Bone -- Caroline Branson -- Jim Brown -- Sarah Brown -- Elijah Browning -- Robert Southey Burke -- John Horace Burleson -- Roy Butler -- Flossie Cabanis -- John Cabanis -- Granville Calhoun -- Henry C. Calhoun -- Calvin Campbell -- Jeremy Carlisle -- Eugene Carman -- Columbus Cheney -- Ida Chicken -- Elizabeth Childers -- John M. Church -- Alfonso Churchill -- Homer Clapp -- Nellie Clark -- Aner Clute -- Seth Compton -- Edith Conant -- E.C. Culbertson -- Robert Davidson -- Silas Dement -- Dippold the optician -- Joseph Dixon -- Batterton Dobyns -- Frank Drummer -- Hare Drummer -- Enoch Dunlap -- Shack Dye -- Imanuel Ehrenhardt -- Epilogue -- State's attorney Fallas -- Clarence Fawcett -- Wallace Ferguson -- Anthony Findlay --Willard Fluke -- Searcy Foote -- Webster Ford -- Benjamin Fraser -- Daisy Fraser -- Charlie French -- Ida Frickey -- James Garber -- Samuel Gardner -- Amelia Garrick …
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