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.

SPRINGFIELD -- The poetry of Edgar Lee Masters will mingle with haunting music when the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum presents “My Heart’s Home: Edgar Lee Masters Celebrates the ...

“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 ...

Over 200 characters are described in the free-verse graveyard poems that Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950) composed for his 1916 “Spoon River Anthology” — and most of them are grim accounts of a ...