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Spoon River Anthology
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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Spoon River Anthology
- Table of contents
- The Hill
- Hod Putt
- Ollie McGee
- Fletcher McGee
- Robert Fulton Tanner
- Cassius Hueffer
- Serepta Mason
- Amanda Barker
- Chase Henry
- Judge Somers
- Benjamin Pantier
- Mrs. Benjamin Pantier
- Reuben Pantier
- Emily Sparks
- Trainor, the Druggist
- Daisy Fraser
- Benjamin Fraser
- Minerva Jones
- “Indignation” Jones
- “Butch” Weldy
- Doctor Meyers
- Mrs. Meyers
- Knowlt Hoheimer
- Lydia Puckett
- Frank Drummer
- Hare Drummer
- Doc Hill
- Sarah Brown
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Flossie Cabanis
- Julia Miller
- Johnnie Sayre
- Charlie French
- Zenas Witt
- Theodore the Poet
- The Town Marshal
- Jack McGuire
- Jacob Goodpasture
- Dorcas Gustine
- Nicholas Bindle
- Harold Arnett
- Margaret Fuller Slack
- George Trimble
- “Ace” Shaw
- Willard Fluke
- Aner Clute
- Lucius Atherton
- Homer Clapp
- Deacon Taylor
- Sam Hookey
- Cooney Potter
- Fiddler Jones
- Nellie Clark
- Louise Smith
- Herbert Marshall
- George Gray
- Hon. Henry Bennett
- Griffy the Cooper
- A. D. Blood
- Dora Williams
- Mrs. Williams
- William and Emily
- The Circuit Judge
- Blind Jack
- John Horace Burleson
- Nancy Knapp
- Barry Holden
- State’s Attorney Fallas
- Wendell P. Bloyd
- Francis Turner
- Franklin Jones
- John M. Church
- Russian Sonia
- Barney Hainsfeather
- Petit, the Poet
- Pauline Barrett
- Mrs. Charles Bliss
- Mrs. George Reece
- Rev. Lemuel Wiley
- Thomas Ross, Jr.
- Rev. Abner Peet
- Jefferson Howard
- Albert Schirding
- Jonas Keene
- Yee Bow
- Washington McNeely
- Mary McNeely
- Daniel M’Cumber
- Georgine Sand Miner
- Thomas Rhodes
- Penniwit, the Artist
- Jim Brown
- Robert Davidson
- Elsa Wertman
- Hamilton Greene
- Ernest Hyde
- Roger Heston
- Amos Sibley
- Mrs. Sibley
- Adam Weirauch
- Ezra Bartlett
- Amelia Garrick
- John Hancock Otis
- The Unknown
- Alexander Throckmorton
- Jonathan Swift Somers (Author of the Spooniad)
- Widow McFarlane
- Carl Hamblin
- Editor Whedon
- Eugene Carman
- Clarence Fawcett
- W. Lloyd Garrison Standard
- Professor Newcomer
- Ralph Rhodes
- Mickey M’Grew
- Rosie Roberts
- Oscar Hummel
- Josiah Tompkins
- Roscoe Purkapile
- Mrs. Purkapile
- Mrs. Kessler
- Harmon Whitney
- Bert Kessler
- Lambert Hutchins
- Lillian Stewart
- Hortense Robbins
- Jacob Godbey
- Walter Simmons
- Tom Beatty
- Roy Butler
- Searcy Foote
- Edmund Pollard
- Thomas Trevelyan
- Percival Sharp
- Hiram Scates
- Peleg Poague
- Jeduthan Hawley
- Abel Melveny
- Oaks Tutt
- Elliott Hawkins
- Enoch Dunlap
- Ida Frickey
- Seth Compton
- Felix Schmidt
- Richard Bone
- Silas Dement
- Dillard Sissman
- E. C. Culbertson
- Shack Dye
- Hildrup Tubbs
- Henry Tripp
- Granville Calhoun
- Henry C. Calhoun
- Alfred Moir
- Perry Zoll
- Magrady Graham
- Archibald Higbie
- Tom Merritt
- Mrs. Merritt
- Elmer Karr
- Elizabeth Childers
- Edith Conant
- Father Malloy
- Ami Green
- Calvin Campbell
- Henry Layton
- Harlan Sewall
- Ippolit Konovaloff
- Henry Phipps
- Harry Wilmans
- John Wasson
- Many Soldiers
- Godwin James
- Lyman King
- Caroline Branson
- Anne Rutledge
- Hamlet Micure
- Mabel Osborne
- William H. Herndon
- Rutherford McDowell
- Hannah Armstrong
- Lucinda Matlock
- Davis Matlock
- Jennie M’Grew
- Columbus Cheney
- Marie Bateson
- Tennessee Claflin Shope
- Imanuel Ehrenhardt
- Samuel Gardner
- Dow Kritt
- William Jones
- William Goode
- J. Milton Miles
- Faith Matheny
- Willie Metcalf
- Willie Pennington
- The Village Atheist
- John Ballard
- Julian Scott
- Alfonso Churchill
- Zilpha Marsh
- James Garber
- Lydia Humphrey
- Le Roy Goldman
- Gustav Richter
- Arlo Will
- Captain Orlando Killion
- Joseph Dixon
- Russell Kincaid
- Aaron Hatfield
- Isaiah Beethoven
- Elijah Browning
- Webster Ford
- The Spooniad
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