"Provides a wealth of information that frames specific historical, biographical, and autobiographical background for names, persons, places, and situations alluded to and invoked by the epitaphs in the Anthology. Hallwas brings to bear on the text and its history a detailed overview of previous scho[...]

One of the most striking and original achievements in American poetry is now available in a remarkable edition that comprehends the poet and his book in an entirely new way. This edition of Spoon River Anthology probes the social background of the smalltown world that Edgar Lee Masters loved and hat[...]

A title, in which, every character is dead. And the dead speak. The speakers lie together in a graveyard in a small, rural community in central Illinois. As they moulder in their earthen tombs, they spill forth their secrets to the living. They speak for all of us, and their secrets are the hidden t[...]

I Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Antologi fra 1915 fortæller de døde på kirkegården i byen Spoon River om deres liv og død blandt andre mennesker. Leonard Forslunds billeder er som en langsom biltur gennem den amerikanske forstadsby, hvor de døde engang levede.

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