Several years ago, Springfield High School English teacher Lydia Negele dusted off Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology." Literally. "I was back in the bookroom and there was a very dusty, old, ...
INVISIBLE LANDSCAPES — Edgar Lee Masters—Macmillan ($2). VACHEL LINDSAY—Edgar Lee Masters —Scribner ($3,). When in 1914 the first poems of Spoon River Anthology were published in Reedy’s Mirror, U. S.
“Spoon River Anthology” (1915) by Edgar Lee Masters, a collection of autobiographical verse monologues in epitaph form, was named by Eliot Weinberger as the “century’s most influential book of ...