![]() ![]() ![]() The Spoon River Anthology, published in 1915, offered a cynical expose of Middle America, exploring issues such as sex, moral decadence and the hypocrisy of small town values. ![]() He used various styles from classical Greek forms to epigrams. Playing around with the form of his poems, he settled on the idea of writing about the people he had known in his youth. Up until 1915 he had published a few books of poetry and several essays but had received little or no critical attention. Beyond that, however, he harbored deep literary ambitions and started publishing his poetry early on under various pseudonyms. Raised in Illinois and the Midwest, with its historical connection to Abraham Lincoln, Edgar Lee Masters trained as a lawyer and would work some thirty years for a firm in Chicago. His collection of short poems, The Spoon River Anthology, is perhaps his most famous contribution to the art and was composed late on in life when he was approaching his 50s. Born in Kansas in 1868, Edgar Lee Masters was the author of a wide range of novels and books of poetry that set him up as one of the major literary voices of America. ![]()
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