"Edgar Masters" redirects here. For the Australian footballer, see Edgar Masters (footballer).
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March 5, 1950(1950-03-05) (aged 81) Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, U.S.[1]
Resting place
Oakland cemetery, Petersburg, Illinois
Occupation
Poet
biographer
lawyer
Language
English
Notable awards
Robert Frost Medal (1942)
Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868 – March 5, 1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness, An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems. 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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EdgarLeeMasters (August 23, 1868 – March 5, 1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology...
River Anthology (1915) is a collection of short free verse poems by EdgarLeeMasters. The poems collectively narrate the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon...
friends and neighbors. Her narration technique is akin in style to EdgarLeeMasters' Spoon River Anthology (1915). Mary Alice is considered the most mysterious...
fictional Illinois town in the 1915 poetry work Spoon River Anthology by EdgarLeeMasters, who was from Lewistown, which is near the river. The river rises...
political confusion of the 1640s, it disappeared. In the early 1900s, EdgarLeeMasters commented: In the Star Chamber the council could inflict any punishment...
definite conception with the ring of the universe..." (Vachel Lindsay, EdgarLeeMasters 1935, page 62) This is evidenced by the 1931 recording he made just...
Helen C. White, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Sinclair Lewis and poet EdgarLeeMasters of Spoon River Anthology fame. In the mid-1930s, Derleth organized...
1903 to 1911, Darrow was partners in the firm of Darrow, Masters and Wilson with EdgarLeeMasters, who later became a famous poet, and Francis S. Wilson...
Madeline Masters Stone (August 18, 1872 – September 24, 1932) was an American sculptor. She was the sister of poet EdgarLeeMasters. She was born Madeline...
to have been a homage to classic writers from literature such as EdgarLeeMasters (Spoon River Anthology), Ambrose Bierce (An Occurrence at Owl Creek...
[citation needed] In 1963, Aidman adapted Spoon River Anthology by poet EdgarLeeMasters into a theater production that is still performed. He appeared on...
Masters (February 3, 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri – June 14, 2015 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was an American novelist, the son of poet EdgarLee Masters...
Louis–based editor best known for his promotion of the poets Sara Teasdale, EdgarLeeMasters, and Carl Sandburg to the audience of his newspaper, Reedy's Mirror...
for literature EdgarLeeMasters Spoon River Anthology Fabrizio De André "L'Antologia di Spoon River: l'epica bucolica di EdgarLeeMasters". Auralcrave...
influence can be seen on writers as diverse as Propertius, Ezra Pound and EdgarLeeMasters. Since full and uncensored English translations became available at...
particularly strong influences on Hamlin Garland, William Allen White, and EdgarLeeMasters. He discovered aspiring African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar...
the authors were first-time nominated among them Theodore Dreiser, EdgarLeeMasters, Frans Eemil Sillanpää (awarded in 1939), Arvid Järnefelt, Paul Valéry...
Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Sinclair Lewis, Meridel LeSueur, EdgarLeeMasters, Victor Folke Nelson, Albert Jay Nock, Eugene O'Neill, Carl Sandburg...
other authors, including Joel Chandler Harris, Carolyn Wells, and EdgarLeeMasters. His 1894 collaboration with Gertrude Hall, Allegretto, was dedicated...
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