Description The Spoon River Anthology is a classic collection of Poems by Edgar Lee Masters, with verses dedicated and named for members of a fictional small American town.
Over the decades prior to this anthology\'s publication in 1915, Rural and urban cultures in the USA had diverged considerably: to many city-dwellers, how Life in the country actually proceeded was simply u.
Edgar Masters intention when he composed these verses was to demystify the culture of small town America.
Description The Spoon River Anthology is a classic collection of Poems by Edgar Lee Masters, with verses dedicated and named for members of a fictional small American town