Spoon River Anthology
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Spoon River Anthology

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Spoon River Anthology

About this book

Spoon River Anthology (1915), by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short free verse poems that collectively narrates the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the Spoon River, which ran near Masters' home town of Lewistown, Illinois. The aim of the poems is to demystify rural and small town American life. The collection includes 212 separate characters, in all providing 244 accounts of their lives, losses, and manner of death. Many of the poems contain cross-references that create an unabashed tapestry of the community. The poems originally were published in 1914 in the St. Louis, Missouri literary journal Reedy's Mirror, under the pseudonym Webster Ford. Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868 – March 5, 1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, 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.

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Publisher
Passerino
Year
2021
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9791220817998
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Spoon River Anthology
  3. Table of contents
  4. The Hill
  5. Hod Putt
  6. Ollie McGee
  7. Fletcher McGee
  8. Robert Fulton Tanner
  9. Cassius Hueffer
  10. Serepta Mason
  11. Amanda Barker
  12. Chase Henry
  13. Judge Somers
  14. Benjamin Pantier
  15. Mrs. Benjamin Pantier
  16. Reuben Pantier
  17. Emily Sparks
  18. Trainor, the Druggist
  19. Daisy Fraser
  20. Benjamin Fraser
  21. Minerva Jones
  22. “Indignation” Jones
  23. “Butch” Weldy
  24. Doctor Meyers
  25. Mrs. Meyers
  26. Knowlt Hoheimer
  27. Lydia Puckett
  28. Frank Drummer
  29. Hare Drummer
  30. Doc Hill
  31. Sarah Brown
  32. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  33. Flossie Cabanis
  34. Julia Miller
  35. Johnnie Sayre
  36. Charlie French
  37. Zenas Witt
  38. Theodore the Poet
  39. The Town Marshal
  40. Jack McGuire
  41. Jacob Goodpasture
  42. Dorcas Gustine
  43. Nicholas Bindle
  44. Harold Arnett
  45. Margaret Fuller Slack
  46. George Trimble
  47. “Ace” Shaw
  48. Willard Fluke
  49. Aner Clute
  50. Lucius Atherton
  51. Homer Clapp
  52. Deacon Taylor
  53. Sam Hookey
  54. Cooney Potter
  55. Fiddler Jones
  56. Nellie Clark
  57. Louise Smith
  58. Herbert Marshall
  59. George Gray
  60. Hon. Henry Bennett
  61. Griffy the Cooper
  62. A. D. Blood
  63. Dora Williams
  64. Mrs. Williams
  65. William and Emily
  66. The Circuit Judge
  67. Blind Jack
  68. John Horace Burleson
  69. Nancy Knapp
  70. Barry Holden
  71. State’s Attorney Fallas
  72. Wendell P. Bloyd
  73. Francis Turner
  74. Franklin Jones
  75. John M. Church
  76. Russian Sonia
  77. Barney Hainsfeather
  78. Petit, the Poet
  79. Pauline Barrett
  80. Mrs. Charles Bliss
  81. Mrs. George Reece
  82. Rev. Lemuel Wiley
  83. Thomas Ross, Jr.
  84. Rev. Abner Peet
  85. Jefferson Howard
  86. Albert Schirding
  87. Jonas Keene
  88. Yee Bow
  89. Washington McNeely
  90. Mary McNeely
  91. Daniel M’Cumber
  92. Georgine Sand Miner
  93. Thomas Rhodes
  94. Penniwit, the Artist
  95. Jim Brown
  96. Robert Davidson
  97. Elsa Wertman
  98. Hamilton Greene
  99. Ernest Hyde
  100. Roger Heston
  101. Amos Sibley
  102. Mrs. Sibley
  103. Adam Weirauch
  104. Ezra Bartlett
  105. Amelia Garrick
  106. John Hancock Otis
  107. The Unknown
  108. Alexander Throckmorton
  109. Jonathan Swift Somers (Author of the Spooniad)
  110. Widow McFarlane
  111. Carl Hamblin
  112. Editor Whedon
  113. Eugene Carman
  114. Clarence Fawcett
  115. W. Lloyd Garrison Standard
  116. Professor Newcomer
  117. Ralph Rhodes
  118. Mickey M’Grew
  119. Rosie Roberts
  120. Oscar Hummel
  121. Josiah Tompkins
  122. Roscoe Purkapile
  123. Mrs. Purkapile
  124. Mrs. Kessler
  125. Harmon Whitney
  126. Bert Kessler
  127. Lambert Hutchins
  128. Lillian Stewart
  129. Hortense Robbins
  130. Jacob Godbey
  131. Walter Simmons
  132. Tom Beatty
  133. Roy Butler
  134. Searcy Foote
  135. Edmund Pollard
  136. Thomas Trevelyan
  137. Percival Sharp
  138. Hiram Scates
  139. Peleg Poague
  140. Jeduthan Hawley
  141. Abel Melveny
  142. Oaks Tutt
  143. Elliott Hawkins
  144. Enoch Dunlap
  145. Ida Frickey
  146. Seth Compton
  147. Felix Schmidt
  148. Richard Bone
  149. Silas Dement
  150. Dillard Sissman
  151. E. C. Culbertson
  152. Shack Dye
  153. Hildrup Tubbs
  154. Henry Tripp
  155. Granville Calhoun
  156. Henry C. Calhoun
  157. Alfred Moir
  158. Perry Zoll
  159. Magrady Graham
  160. Archibald Higbie
  161. Tom Merritt
  162. Mrs. Merritt
  163. Elmer Karr
  164. Elizabeth Childers
  165. Edith Conant
  166. Father Malloy
  167. Ami Green
  168. Calvin Campbell
  169. Henry Layton
  170. Harlan Sewall
  171. Ippolit Konovaloff
  172. Henry Phipps
  173. Harry Wilmans
  174. John Wasson
  175. Many Soldiers
  176. Godwin James
  177. Lyman King
  178. Caroline Branson
  179. Anne Rutledge
  180. Hamlet Micure
  181. Mabel Osborne
  182. William H. Herndon
  183. Rutherford McDowell
  184. Hannah Armstrong
  185. Lucinda Matlock
  186. Davis Matlock
  187. Jennie M’Grew
  188. Columbus Cheney
  189. Marie Bateson
  190. Tennessee Claflin Shope
  191. Imanuel Ehrenhardt
  192. Samuel Gardner
  193. Dow Kritt
  194. William Jones
  195. William Goode
  196. J. Milton Miles
  197. Faith Matheny
  198. Willie Metcalf
  199. Willie Pennington
  200. The Village Atheist
  201. John Ballard
  202. Julian Scott
  203. Alfonso Churchill
  204. Zilpha Marsh
  205. James Garber
  206. Lydia Humphrey
  207. Le Roy Goldman
  208. Gustav Richter
  209. Arlo Will
  210. Captain Orlando Killion
  211. Joseph Dixon
  212. Russell Kincaid
  213. Aaron Hatfield
  214. Isaiah Beethoven
  215. Elijah Browning
  216. Webster Ford
  217. The Spooniad

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