Spoon River Anthology

Description

Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, originally published in 1915, is a collection of short free verse poems. Each poem is an autobiographical epitaph of a dead person that lived in the fictional town of Spoon River, named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters' home town of Lewistown, Illinois. With 212 distinct characters featured, the anthology encompasses 244 reflections on their lives, losses, and modes of demise. Many poems intertwine with one another, constructing a candid tableau of the community. A lot of the characters are inspired by real people Masters knew or had heard of, and the poems form a story of sorts - of gratitude, of pettiness, of love, and of the histories of their lives.

This book has 33,753 words, 229 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1915.

Production notes: This ebook of Spoon River Anthology was published by Global Grey in 2019, and updated on the 18th March 2024. The artwork used for the cover is 'On the Essex River' by John Leslie Breck.