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...
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River Anthology is a 1915 collection of short free verse poems by Edgar Lee Masters. The poems collectively narrate the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon...
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poet and novelist Edgar Lee Masters, whose father, Hardin W. Masters, was a supporter of the licensing of saloons. Edgar Lee Masters also believed that...
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friends and neighbors. Her narration technique is akin in style to Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology (1915). Mary Alice is considered the most mysterious...
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definite conception with the ring of the universe..." (Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters 1935, p. 62) This is evidenced by the 1931 recording he made just...
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Masters, Edgar Lee; Hallwas, John E. (1992). Spoon River Anthology: an annotated edition. Urbana, Ill.: Univ. of Illinois Press. "Edgar Lee Masters"...
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1903 to 1911, Darrow was partners in the firm of Darrow, Masters and Wilson with Edgar Lee Masters, who later became a famous poet, and Francis S. Wilson...
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Helen C. White, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Sinclair Lewis and poet Edgar Lee Masters of Spoon River Anthology fame. In the mid-1930s, Derleth organized...
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political confusion of the 1640s, it disappeared. In the early 1900s, Edgar Lee Masters commented: In the Star Chamber the council could inflict any punishment...
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He was buried in Graceland Cemetery. Edgar Lee Masters wrote a commemorative poem about Lathrop in Poetry magazine in honor...
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fictional Illinois town in the 1915 poetry work Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, who was from Lewistown, which is near the river. The river rises...
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southwest of Peoria. It is the source of Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, who lived there. Native American burial mounds are nearby at Dickson...
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influence can be seen on writers as diverse as Propertius, Ezra Pound and Edgar Lee Masters. Since full and uncensored English translations became available at...
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monologues inspired by the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. Each of the monologues is written from the...
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for literature Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology Fabrizio De André "L'Antologia di Spoon River: l'epica bucolica di Edgar Lee Masters". Auralcrave...
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series of literary and artistic endeavors. He published a book by poet Edgar Lee Masters, and made a documentary about mining that has been of interest to...
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Lewelling — 12th Governor of Kansas Don Marquis — author and journalist Edgar Lee Masters — poet and novelist, best known as author of Spoon River Anthology...
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(2009) Comedian Tomáš Masaryk (1960) President of Czechoslovakia Edgar Lee Masters (1970) Poet Christy Mathewson (2000) Baseball player Bill Mauldin...
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class.": 398 Dreiser's appearance and personality were described by Edgar Lee Masters in a poem, Theodore Dreiser: A Portrait, published in The New York...
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Petersburg Harris Laning, admiral, United States Navy; born in Petersburg Edgar Lee Masters, lawyer and author (Spoon River Anthology); buried in Petersburg's...
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The low rents in particular attracted artists like John Sloan and Edgar Lee Masters. There was controversy in late 1934 when then-manager Jerry Gagin...
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is the fourth studio album by Richard Buckner, setting poems from Edgar Lee Masters' 1915 Spoon River Anthology to music. It was released by Overcoat...
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to have been an homage to classic writers from literature such as Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology), Ambrose Bierce (An Occurrence at Owl Creek...
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name comes from Old King Cole, who was mentioned in "The Search" by Edgar Lee Masters, published in Cosmopolitan, a poem Howard had "been trying to re-discover"...
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West, Allen Ginsberg, J.R. Ackerley, Scott Fitzgerald, Dylan Thomas, Edgar Lee Masters, among many others. He is the co-founder, along with the painter Alberto...
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Cemetery. A collection of letters exchanged between her and poet Edgar Lee Masters is archived in the Newberry Library in Chicago. Some sources give...
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the authors were first-time nominated among them Theodore Dreiser, Edgar Lee Masters, Frans Eemil Sillanpää (awarded in 1939), Arvid Järnefelt, Paul Valéry...
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in free verse. This collection was influenced by the loose form of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. An urban, racially diverse and culturally...
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Johnson David Starr Jordan William Larrabee Josephine Shaw Lowell Edgar Lee Masters William Vaughn Moody Hazen S. Pingree Carl Schurz John Sherman Moorfield...
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Madeline Masters Stone (August 18, 1872 – September 24, 1932) was an American sculptor. She was the sister of poet Edgar Lee Masters. She was born Madeline...
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