This 1916 gathering of verse follows Masters’s landmark volume, Spoon River Anthology. Poems include “Fort Dearborn, ” “Captain John Whistler, ” “Lincoln and Douglas Debates, ” “The Typical American?”, “Come, Republic, ” “Achilles Deatheridge, ” “To a Spirochaeta, ” “My Dog Ponto, ” “The Gospel of Mark, “Theodore Dreiser, ” “Monsieur D— to the Psychoanalyst, ” and many others.
Over de auteur
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.
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