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His success and friendship with Monroe also brought him into the Chicago Group and contact with such poets as Carl Sandburg and Vachel Lindsay.
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The Spoon River of the title is the name of an actual river in Illinois, but the town combines Lewistown, where Masters grew up, and Petersburg, where his grandparents lived.
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In his later years, Masters received several awards based on his earlier successes, including a Poetry Society of America Award, the Shelley Memorial Award, a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Academy Fellowship in 1946.
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Masters had been submitting poems to Marion Reedy, the editor of Reedy's Mirror in St.
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Adopt a Poet | Add to Notebook | E-mail to Friend | Print Edgar Lee Masters Edgar Lee Masters was born in Garnett, Kansas, on August 23, 1868, but soon after his birth his family moved to Lewistown, Illinois, the town near Springfield where Masters grew up.
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He published thirty-nine more books, including novels, plays, collections of poetry, and biographies of Lindsay, Mark Twain, Whitman, and Lincoln.
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Edgar Lee Masters

The height of the Chicago renaissance was passed, and Masters considered impossible to return back to his home town.
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Fuller, Theodore Dreiser, Ben Hecht, Sherwood Anderson, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg.
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Masters attended Knox College, known for its conservatism, and in 1891 he was admitted to the bar.
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Noteworthy, in his autobiography, Across Spoon River (1939) Masters never mentions Darrow, who represented his wife during the writer’s divorce.
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When his wife did not grant him a divorce, Masters left his family and sailed in 1921 to Europe.
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As a result of a boyhood case of pneumonia, Masters had always been weak in the lungs, and in 1915 he contracted pneumonia through overwork.
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1922 Children of the Marketplace, A Fictitious Autobiography, biography of Stephen Douglas.
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1869 Masters family returns to the Illinois farm of Harding’s parents in Menard County near Pertersburg.
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Received Shelley Memorial Award (1944) 1950 Dies March 5 and is buried at Oakland Cemetery in Petersburg, Illinois.
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New edition of Spoon River Anthology with thirty-two new poems.
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Edgar Lee Masters : The Poetry Foundation

Hyman, Stanley Edgar, The Critic's Credentials: Essays and Reviews, edited by Phoebe Pettingell, Atheneum, 1978.
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The Enduring River: Edgar Lee Masters's Uncollected Spoon River Poems, edited by Herbert K.
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At last America has discovered a poet," rejoiced fellow poet Ezra Pound in the Egoist.
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"The people whose faces look out from the pages of the book are the people of life itself, each trait of them as plain or as mysterious as in the old home valley where the writer came from.
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Spoon River Anthology mixed classical forms with innovative ones to create a work that critics both praised and scorned.
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Whether we condemn or praise, we must accept it as a major episode in the history of the poetic movement in the second decade of the new century." Although Masters published many more works, including novels, history and a sequel, The New Spoon River, he never succeeded in producing another volume to match his masterpiece.
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Edgar Lee Masters: Biography from Answers.com

Masters began developing as a notable American poet in 1914 , when he began a series of poems (this time under the pseudonym Webster Ford) about his childhood experiences in Western Illinois, which appeared in Reedy's Mirror, a St.
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23, 1868, Garnett, Kan., U.S.died March 5, 1950, Philadelphia, Pa.) U.S. poet and novelist.
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Its 245 free- verse epitaphs in the form of monologues are spoken from the grave by the former inhabitants of a fictitious small town, who tell of their bitter, unfulfilled lives in its dreary confines.
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Houghton Mifflin Chronology of US Literature: Works by Edgar Lee Masters Top Home > Library > Literature & Language > Works by Authors (1869-1950) 1898A Book of Verses.
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A second volume, The Blood of the Prophets, would be published anonymously in 1905, and Masters would issue two volumes of Songs and Sonnets in 1910 and 1912 before his breakthrough in 1915.
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The family soon moved back to his paternal grandparents' farm near Petersburg in Menard County, Illinois.
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Edgar Lee Masters and the Spoon River Anthology

Masters wove a thread of partial reality throughout the Anthology.
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Its literary significance has been compared with Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass [published in 1855].
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Masters' used his childhood experiences in these two communities, as a basis for the poems.
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In brief free-verse monologues called epitaphs, supposedly spoken from their graves, its characters summarized their lives in (and occasionally beyond) an Illinois village.
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The sweep of the nation's history and migrations permeated his books and articles although most of them were focused in the Central Illinois country where he grew to manhood.
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Many critics believe Spoon River was a benchmark in the emergence of modern poetry characterized by vigorous style and willingness to confront the range of human behavior and conditions as subject matter.
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Another of his books that received much attention and critical fire was an iconoclastic biography, Lincoln: The Man (1931).  As for the rest, the best would include Mitch Miller (1920), the first of a series of autobiographical novels; The New Spoon River (1924), in the style of the earlier success; Vachel Lindsay: A Poet in America (1935), a sensitive and sympathetic biography of a fellow Illinois poet; Across Spoon River (1936), an unsparing autobiography: and The Sangamon (1942), a retrospective of the region of his youth for the Rivers of America series.
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The family soon moved back to his paternal grandparents' farm near Petersburg in Menard County, Illinois.
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In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman.
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In 1911, he started his own law firm, despite the three years of unrest (1908-1911) due to extramarital affairs and an argument with Darrow.
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1899)Daughter: MadelineDaughter: MarciaMistress: Tennessee Mitchell (extramarital affair 1909-11)Wife: Ellen Coyne (m.
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Authors > Verse > Edgar Lee Masters Degenerate sons and daughters,/ Life is too much for you— / It takes life to love life.
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For a picture, view this site:    http://home.ican.net/~fjzwick/masters/ Bibliography: Masters, Edgar Lee.  Spoon River Anthology.  New York:  The Macmillan Company, 1936.
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One passed in a fever, One was burned in a mine, One was killed in a brawl, One died in a jail, One fell from a bridge toiling for children and wife-- All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.
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They brought them dead sons from the war, And daughters whom life had crushed, And their children fatherless, crying-- All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.
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Where is Old Fiddler Jones Who played with life all his ninety years, Braving the sleet with bared breast, Drinking, rioting, thinking neither of wife not kin, Nor gold, nor love, nor heaven?
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(Hide copyright information) Copyright Masters, Edgar Lee (1868–1950) US poet and novelist.
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Finding no relief in a 1921 Mediterranean vacation, he abandoned both family and the law and moved to New York to concentrate on literature.
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23, 1869, in Garnett, Kans. A year later his father's law practice failed and the family moved to the grandfather's Illinois farm.
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World Encyclopedia Further reading Edgar Lee Masters Encyclopedia of World Biography | 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2004 The Gale Group Inc.
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In the 1930s he turned to biography and history, writing of Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, and his friend Vachel Lindsay and of Chicago.
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Newspaper article from: The Washington Times (Washington, DC); 11/6/1999 Facts and information from other sites Edgar Lee Masters at HighBeam Research Edgar Lee Masters on Wikipedia Pictures from Google Image Search See more pictures of Masters, Edgar Lee Related topics Edgar Douglas Adrian Baron Adrian Edgar Degas Videos from YouTube Spoon River performed live by...
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Articles about Edgar Lee Masters - Chicago Tribune

Mrs. Fitzgerald, a native of Lockport, attended the University of Chicago.NEWSMiner, Gloria GebhartFebruary 4, 2007Gloria Gebhart "Muffy" Miner, longtime former resident of Northbrook, died Jan.
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She graduated from North Shore Country Day School in Winnetka, attended Smith College from 1946-1948, then transferred to and graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston.
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There will be no services for Mrs. Fitzgerald, a longtime resident of the Near North Side.
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FitzgeraldBy Kenan Heise | April 2, 1989Dorothy Dow Fitzgerald, 91, who wrote in the 1920s and 1930s under her maiden name, Dorothy Dow, was a poet, biographer, playwright and novelist.
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Scarcely anyone would have heard of this erratic stream except for one of the area's native sons, Edgar Lee Masters.NEWSOn Aug.
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No writer or artist of any name has come from there.
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Spoon River Anthology

  Talked about most Thomas Rhodes (16) Jack McGuire (6) Editor Whedon (6) Doctor Meyers (5) "Butch" Weldy (5) Kinsey Keene (5) Benjamin Pantier (5) Chase Henry (4) Lucius Atherton (4) Daisy Fraser (4) Minerva Jones (4) Nicholas Bindle (4) A.
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A collection of epitaphs of residents of a small town, a full understanding of Spoon River requires the reader to piece together narratives from fragments contained in individual poems.
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Blood (5) Jim Brown (5) Judge Selah Lively (4) Tom Beatty (3) Kinsey Keene (3) Doctor Meyers (3) Thomas Rhodes (3) E.
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You may find it easier to look up specific people in the alphabetical index, or to use the search form on the right.
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Edgar Lee Masters - Poems, Biography, Quotes

He was educated in the public schools in Petersburg and Lewistown (where he worked as a newspaper printer after school) and spent a year in an academy school hoping to gain admission to Knox College.
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Russell says in his biography of Masters, “a literary and social uproar unlike that of any other book of American poetry published before or after.”  Masters utilized free verse, or verse libre, a style not widely used in the early twentieth century.  In order to color the epitaphs, elicit material was not avoided in Spoon River.
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Masters’ health never improved and he spent his final, debilitated seven years in a nursing home in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania.  During his final illness, he asked for Ellen to come to him and the two reconciled.  After that she spent the following six years caring for him.  He died on March 5, 1950 and was buried in a Petersburg, Illinois cemetery, amongst the inspirations for his most famous work, Spoon River Anthology.
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Edgar Lee Masters: The Spoon River Poet and his Critics.
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After high school, Masters attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois from 1889 to 1890.  During his time in school, he wrote A Book of Verses, a collection of simple and conventional poems about love, other poets, and the changing of the seasons.  He attended Knox College for only one term before dropping out and accepting a job as a schoolteacher.  Because he hated teaching, Masters decided to return to Lewistown to pursue law and to appease his father.  He read law his father’s office for a year after college and then spent a year in partnership with him.
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In 1909, Masters read Epigrams from the Greek Anthology for the first time, as recommended to him by the editor of Reedy’s Mirror, a literary magazine in St.
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Sweet it was to see the crowds about the lawns on       the day of my funeral.
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Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950) - Georgetown University: Web hosting

(d) What have you underlined or written in the margin and why?
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Today, however, the audience is largely academic and concerns are more in the direction of scholarship and how to teach the works rather than popularity and whether they speak to an age.
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Original Audience Spoon River reached a mass audience when it was written and still sells better than most poetry.
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When Masters is relatively simple in form and message, that throws them.
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Talk about how he hid copies of Shelley and Goethe behind law books when people thought he was supposed to be working.
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Major Themes, Historical Perspectives, and Personal Issues Consider what it means to live in small-town America, how it is attractive to try to sum up a lifetime on a gravestone, the importance of peer pressure and what others think.
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Silence - Edgar Lee Masters - Wes Jones Home Page

And there is the silence of age, Too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it In words intelligible to those who have not lived The great range of life.
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Henderson, eds., The Macmillan Company, New York, 1946 Return to Top   Home   Wes Jones wesman@wesjones.com   © 1999 Wes Jones.
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If we who are in life cannot speak Of profound experiences, Why do you marvel that the dead Do not tell you of death?
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There is the silence of a spiritual crisis, Through which your soul, exquisitely tortured, Comes with visions not to be uttered Into a realm of higher life.
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A beast of the field moans a few times When death takes its young.
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There is the silence that comes between husband and wife.
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