I reread the work in the early 1990s, about 25 years after first reading it. At a time of industrialization and burgeoning growth of the cities, it reminded people that their romantic notions of small-town life were more nostalgia than reality. It was an almost overnight sensation and national bestseller. She helped Masters assemble the collection that became Spoon River Anthology. Louis (and a promoter of Carl Sandburg and Sara Teasdale, among others), published several of Masters’ poems, which were noticed by Harriet Monroe of Poetry Magazine. In 1914, Marion Reedy, editor of Reedy’s Mirror in St. He published a few collections but without much notice or success. For several years he was the law partner of Clarence Darrow. His love was literature and poetry, but he trained as a lawyer, and moved to Chicago to practice. Masters was born in Kansas but moved at a young age with his family to Lewiston, Illinois, whose Oak Hill Cemetery furnished the setting for the poems. The Edgar Lee Masters Home in Lewiston, Illinois
The class even attended a production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, which seemed to me a dramatic version of Spoon River Anthology. I read the whole work for a research paper. We read parts of Spoon River Anthology, that collection of more than 200 tombstone inscriptions, aloud in class. But when she introduced us to the Realists ( Edith Wharton, Jack London, Willa Cather) and the early Modernist poets (Eliot, Vachel Lindsay, Sara Teasdale, and others), I believe I fell in love with literature.
She loved American literature, however, and she was wildly enthusiastic about Huckleberry Finn (apparently is was almost as good as Valley of the Dolls) and Walt Whitman. She told us that Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls was the greatest American novel ever written it had been published the previous year. Prince, was a larger-than-life character who spoke in breathless superlatives and occasional exuberant shouts. I first read Spoon River Anthology in high school, junior year, in fact, the year we all took American literature (paired with American history). Alfred Prufrock” or “ The Hollow Men” or “ Four Quartets.” My answer would be Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950). If you asked me my favorite poem or collection of poems, my answer would not be “ The Love Song of J.
If you asked who my favorite poet is, I wouldn’t hesitate in my answer: T.S.
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