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- English
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Spoon River Anthology
About this book
The renowned poet's classic collection of free verse exploring the lives of colorful characters in a fictional American small town.
In 1914, Edgar Lee Masters began writing a series of poems inspired by his early life in Western Illinois. These poems, which appeared in the St. Louis literary journal Reedy's Mirror, were later published in book form as the Spoon River Anthology.
Innovative in both conception and style, these free verse poems take on the voices of characters who reveal the sordid secrets of their Midwestern hamlet from beyond the grave. Through interwoven stories of deceit, corruption, and infidelity, a sweeping tale of a town and its people emerges, bringing with it a knowing indictment of small-town hypocrisy that influenced a generation of authors, including Theodore Dreiser and William Faulkner.Tools to learn more effectively
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- The Hill
- Hod Putt
- Ollie McGee
- Fletcher McGee
- Robert Fulton Tanner
- Cassius Hueffer
- Serepta Mason
- Amanda Barker
- Constance Hately
- Chase Henry
- Harry Carey Goodhue
- Judge Somers
- Kinsey Keene
- 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
- Conrad Siever
- Doc Hill
- Andy The Night-Watch
- 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
- Dr. Siegfried Iseman
- “Ace” Shaw
- Lois Spears
- Justice Arnett
- 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
- Sersmith the Dentist
- A. D. Blood
- Robert Southey Burke
- 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
- Isa Nutter
- Barney Hainsfeather
- Petit, the Poet
- Pauline Barrett
- Mrs. Charles Bliss
- Mrs. George Reece
- Rev. Lemuel Wiley
- Thomas Ross, Jr.
- Rev. Abner Peet
- Jefferson Howard
- Judge Selah Lively
- Albert Schirding
- Jonas Keene
- Eugenia Todd
- Yee Bow
- Washington McNeely
- Paul McNeely
- Mary McNeely
- Daniel M’Cumber
- Georgine Sand Miner
- Thomas Rhodes
- Ida Chicken
- Penniwit, the Artist
- Robert Davidson
- Elsa Wertman
- Hamilton Greene
- Ernest Hyde
- Roger Heston
- Amos Sibley
- Mrs. Sibley
- Adam Weirauch
- Ezra Bartlett
- Amelia Garrick
- John Hancock Otis
- Anthony Findlay
- John Cabanis
- 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
- Batterton Dobyns
- 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
- Voltaire Johnson
- English Thornton
- Enoch Dunlap
- Ida Frickey
- Seth Compton
- Felix Schmidt
- Schrœder The Fisherman
- Richard Bone
- Silas Dement
- Dillard Sissman
- Jonathan Houghton
- E. C. Culbertson
- Shack Dye
- Hildrup Tubbs
- Henry Tripp
- Granville Calhoun
- Henry C. Calhoun
- Alfred Moir
- Perry Zoll
- Dippold the Optician
- Magrady Graham
- Archibald Higbie
- Tom Merritt
- Mrs. Merritt
- Elmer Karr
- Elizabeth Childers
- Edith Conant
- Charles Webster
- 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
- Rebecca Wasson
- Rutherford McDowell
- Hannah Armstrong
- Lucinda Matlock
- Davis Matlock
- Jennie M’Grew
- Wallace Ferguson
- Marie Bateson
- Plymouth Rock Joe
- Imanuel Ehrenhardt
- Samuel Gardner
- Dow Kritt
- William Jones
- William Goode
- J. Milton Miles
- Faith Matheny
- Scholfield Hurley
- 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
- Jeremy Carlisle
- Joseph Dixon
- Judson Stoddard
- Russell Kincaid
- Aaron Hatfield
- Isaiah Beethoven
- Elijah Browning
- Webster Ford
- The Spooniad
- Epilogue
- Copyright
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