"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[...]
A literary sensation when it appeared in 1915, "Spoon River Anthology" earned Edgar Lee Masters comparisons to T. S. Eliot and Walt Whitman. The characters who speak here tarnish the pure image of their Midwestern hamlet by holding forth from the grave with tales of illicit love affairs, betrayed co[...]
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 CLASSIC IN AMERICAN POETRY...
When "Spoon River Anthology" was published in 1915 it garnered immediate national attention for its truth and its shocking transgression of societal mores. A collection of poems from the graveyard of a rural Illinois town, "Spoon River Anthology" poignantly captu[...]
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.
En kunstbog i samme serie[...]