This 1919 collection of more than 40 poems includes “Creation, ” “Tyrannosaurus: or Burning Letters, ” “Lord Byron to Doctor Polidori, ” “A Woman of Forty, ” “William Shakespeare, ” “By the Waters of Babylon, ” “The Christian Statesman, ” “Winged Victory, ” “Oh You Sabbatarians!”, “Pallas Athene, ” “Chicago, ” and “Inexorable Deities.”
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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.