This 1918 verse collection includes the author’s epitaph, “To-morrow is my Birthday, ” as well as “Cities of the Plain, ” “Excluded Middle, ” “Samuel Butler, et al, ” “Johnny Appleseed, ” “Victor Rafolski on Art, ” “Delilah, ” “Bertrand and Gourgaud Talk over Old Times, ” “Draw the Sword, O Republic, ” “Neanderthal, ” and many others.
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Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) wrote more than twenty-five books of verse, four plays, several novels, an autobiography, and biographies of Lincoln, Twain, and Whitman. He also had a successful career as a lawyer in Chicago. Masters’s Spoon River Anthology, a collection of short free-form poems describing life and skewering hypocrisy in a small American town, is his best remembered work and a rare poetry bestseller.