Spoon River Anthology

by Masters, Edgar Lee; Swenson, May

• ISBN13: 9780743255073
• ISBN10: 0743255070
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Touchstone

Summary

An American poetry classic, in which former citizens of a mythical midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dreams of their lives.

Author Biography

Edgar Lee Masters was born in 1868 in Garnett, Kansas. He achieved fame in 1915 with the publication of Spoon River Anthology. Though he never matched the success of Spoon River Anthology, Masters was a prolific writer of diverse works. He published several volumes of poems including The Great Valley (1916), Along the Illinois (1942), The Serpent in the Wilderness (1933), and Invisible Landscapes (1935). In the 1940s he was awarded the Poetry Society of America medal, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the Academy of American Poets Fellowship. Edgar Lee Masters died in Melrose, Pennsylvania, in 1950 and is buried in Petersburg, Illinois.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xv
Altman, Herman	p. 218
Armstrong, Hannah	p. 215
Arnett, Harold	p. 47
Arnett, Justice	p. 53
Atheist, The Village	p. 236
Atherton, Lucius	p. 56
Ballard, John	p. 237
Barker, Amanda	p. 9
Barrett, Pauline	p. 88
Bartlett, Ezra	p. 117
Bateson, Marie	p. 222
Beatty, Tom	p. 148
Beethoven, Isaiah	p. 252
Bennett, Hon. Henry	p. 66
Bindle, Nicholas	p. 45
Bliss, Mrs. Charles	p. 89
Blood, A. D.	p. 69
Bloyd, Wendell P.	p. 80
Bone, Richard	p. 170
Branson, Caroline	p. 205
Brown, Jim	p. 108
Brown, Sarah	p. 34
Browning, Elijah	p. 253
Burke, Robert Southey	p. 70
Burleson, John Horace	p. 76
Butler, Roy	p. 149
Cabanis, Flossie	p. 36
Cabanis, John	p. 121
Calhoun, Granville	p. 178
Calhoun, Henry C.	p. 179
Campbell, Calvin	p. 193
Carlisle, Jeremy	p. 247
Carman, Eugene	p. 128
Cheney, Columbus	p. 220
Chicken, Ida	p. 106
Childers, Elizabeth	p. 188
Church, John M.	p. 83
Churchill, Alfonso	p. 239
Clapp, Homer	p. 57
Clark, Nellie	p. 62
Clute, Aner	p. 55
Compton, Seth	p. 167
Conant, Edith	p. 189
Culbertson, E. C.	p. 174
Davidson, Robert	p. 109
Dement, Silas	p. 171
Dippold the Optician	p. 182
Dixon, Joseph	p. 248
Dobyns, Batterton	p. 145
Drummer, Frank	p. 29
Drummer, Hare	p. 30
Dunlap, Enoch	p. 165
Dye, Shack	p. 175
Ehrenhardt, Imanuel	p. 226
Epilogue	p. 267
Fallas, State's Attorney	p. 79
Fawcett, Clarence	p. 129
Ferguson, Wallace	p. 221
Findlay, Anthony	p. 120
Fluke, Willard	p. 54
Foote, Searcy	p. 150
Ford, Webster	p. 255
Fraser, Benjamin	p. 21
Fraser, Daisy	p. 20
French, Charlie	p. 39
Frickey, Ida	p. 166
Garber, James	p. 241
Gardner, Samuel	p. 227
Garrick, Amelia	p. 118
Godbey, Jacob	p. 146
Goldman, Le Roy	p. 243
Goode, William	p. 230
Goodhue Harry Carey	p. 12
Goodpasture, Jacob	p. 46
Graham, Magrady	p. 183
Gray, George	p. 65
Green, Ami	p. 192
Greene, Hamilton	p. 111
Griffy the Cooper	p. 67
Gustine, Dorcas	p. 44
Hainsfeather, Barney	p. 86
Hamblin, Carl	p. 126
Hately, Constance	p. 10
Hatfield, Aaron	p. 251
Hawkins, Elliott	p. 161
Hawley, Jeduthan	p. 158
Henry, Chase	p. 11
Herndon, William H.	p. 211
Heston, Roger	p. 113
Higbie, Archibald	p. 184
Hill, Doc	p. 32
Hill, The	p. 1
Hoheimer, Knowlt	p. 27
Holden, Barry	p. 78
Hookey, Sam	p. 59
Houghton, Jonathan	p. 173
Howard, Jefferson	p. 94
Hueffer, Cassius	p. 7
Hummel, Oscar	p. 135
Humphrey, Lydia	p. 242
Huxley, Scholfield	p. 233
Hutchins, Lambert	p. 142
Hyde, Ernest	p. 112
Iseman, Dr. Siegfried	p. 50
Jack, Blind	p. 75
James, Godwin	p. 203
Joe, Plymouth Rock	p. 224
Johnson, Voltaire	p. 163
Jones, Fiddler	p. 61
Jones, Franklin	p. 82
Jones, "Indignation"	p. 23
Jones, Minerva	p. 22
Jones, William	p. 229
Judge, The Circuit	p. 74
Karr, Elmer	p. 187
Keene, Jonas	p. 97
Keene, Kinsey	p. 14
Kessler, Bert	p. 141
Kessler, Mrs.	p. 139
Killion, Captain Orlando	p. 246
Kincaid, Russell	p. 250
King, Lyman	p. 204
Knapp, Nancy	p. 77
Konovaloff, Ippolit	p. 196
Kritt, Dow	p. 228
Layton, Henry	p. 194
Lively, Judge Selah	p. 95
M'Cumber, Daniel	p. 103
McDowell, Rutherford	p. 214
McFarlane, Widow	p. 125
McGee, Fletcher	p. 5
McGee, Ollie	p. 4
M'Grew, Jennie	p. 219
M'Grew, Mickey	p. 133
McGuire, Jack	p. 43
McNeely, Mary	p. 102
McNeely, Paul	p. 101
McNeely, Washington	p. 100
Malloy, Father	p. 191
Marsh, Zilpha	p. 240
Marshal, The Town	p. 42
Marshall, Herbert	p. 64
Mason, Serepta	p. 8
Matheny, Faith	p. 232
Matlock, Davis	p. 217
Matlock, Lucinda	p. 216
Melveny, Abel	p. 159
Merritt, Mrs.	p. 186
Merritt, Tom	p. 185
Metcalf, Willie	p. 234
Meyers, Doctor	p. 24
Meyers, Mrs.	p. 25
Micure, Hamlet	p. 208
Miles, J. Milton	p. 231
Miller, Julia	p. 37
Miner, Georgine Sand	p. 104
Moir, Alfred	p. 180
Newcomer, Professor	p. 131
Night-Watch, Andy the	p. 33
Nutter, Isa	p. 85
Osborne, mabel	p. 210
Otis, John Hancock	p. 119
Pantier, Benjamin	p. 15
Pantier, Mrs. Benjamin	p. 16
Pantier, Reuben	p. 17
Peet, Rev. Abner	p. 93
Pennington,Willie	p. 235
Penniwit, The Artist	p. 107
Petit, The Poet	p. 87
Phipps, Henry	p. 197
Poague, Peleg	p. 157
Pollard, Edmund	p. 152
Potter, Cooney	p. 60
Puckett, Lydia	p. 28
Purkapile, Mrs.	p. 137
Purkapile, Roscoe	p. 136
Putt, Hod	p. 3
Reece, Mrs. George	p. 90
Rhodes, Ralph	p. 132
Rhodes, Thomas	p. 105
Richter, Gustav	p. 244
Robbins, Hortense	p. 144
Roberts, Rosie	p. 134
Ross, Thomas, Jr.	p. 92
Russian Sonia	p. 84
Rutledge, Anne	p. 207
Sayre, Johnnie	p. 38
Scates, Hiram	p. 156
Schirding, Albert	p. 96
Schmidt, Felix	p. 168
Schrceder the Fisherman	p. 169
Scott, Julian	p. 238
Sexsmith the Dentist	p. 68
Sewall, Harlan	p. 195
Sharp, Percival	p. 154
Shaw, "Ace"	p. 51
Shelley, Percy Bysshe	p. 35
Shope, Tennessee Claflin	p. 223
Sibley, Amos	p. 114
Sibley, Mrs.	p. 115
Siever, Conrad	p. 31
Simmons, Walter	p. 147
Sissman, Dillard	p. 172
Slack, Margaret Fuller	p. 48
Smith, Louise	p. 63
Soldiers, Many	p. 202
Somers, Jonathan Swift	p. 124
Somers, Judge	p. 13
Sparks, Emily	p. 18
Spears, Lois	p. 52
Spooniad, The	p. 257
Standard, W. Lloyd Garrison	p. 130
Stewart, Lillian	p. 143
Stoddard, Judson	p. 249
Tanner, Robert Fulton	p. 6
Taylor, Deacon	p. 58
Theodore the Poet	p. 41
Thornton, English	p. 164
Throckmorton, Alexander	p. 123
Todd, Eugenia	p. 98
Tompkins, Josiah	p. 138
Trainor, the Druggist	p. 19
Trevelyan, Thomas	p. 153
Trimble, George	p. 49
Tripp, Henry	p. 177
Tubbs, Hildrup	p. 176
Turner, Francis	p. 81
Tutt, Oaks	p. 160
Unknown, The	p. 122
Wasson, John	p. 201
Wasson, Rebecca	p. 213
Webster, Charles	p. 190
Weirauch, Adam	p. 116
Weldy, "Butch"	p. 26
Wertman, Elsa	p. 110
Whedon, Editor	p. 127
Whitney, Harmon	p. 140
Wiley, Rev. Lemuel	p. 91
Will, Arlo	p. 245
William and Emily	p. 73
Williams, Dora	p. 71
Williams, Mrs.	p. 72
Wilmans, Harry	p. 199
Witt, Zenas	p. 40
Yee Bow	p. 99
Zoll, Perry	p. 181
For Further Reading	p. 285
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