Edgar Lee Masters

Masters, Edgar Lee - 1869–1950, American poet and biographer, b. Garnett, Kans. He maintained a successful law practice in Chicago from 1892 to 1920. Masters's Spoon River Anthology (1915), a collection of epitaphs in free verse revealing the secret lives of dead citizens, was acclaimed for its treatment of small-town American life. Less successful volumes that followed include Starved Read More...

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Spoon River Anthology
by Edgar Lee Masters. 306 pgs.

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Spoon River Anthology

The Spooniad

Epilogue
2 .

The New Spoon River
by Edgar Lee Masters. 374 pgs.

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The Valley of Stillness
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Spoon River Revisited (literary criticism)
by Lois Hartley. 32 pgs.

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A Library of Literary Criticism: Modern American Literature ("Masters, Edgar Lee (1868-1950)" begins on p. 326)
by Dorothy Nyren. 554 pgs.

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Periodicals Represented

Adams, Henry (1838-1918)

Agee, James (1909-1955)

Aiken, Conrad (1889- )

Algren, Nelson (1909- )

Anderson, Maxwell (1888-1959)

Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941)

Auchincloss, Louis (1917- )

Auden, W. H. (1907-)

Babbitt, Irving (1865-1933)

Baldwin, James (1924- )

Barnes, Djuna (1900- )

Barry, Philip (1896-1949)

Behrman, S. N. (1893- )

Bellow, Saul (1915- )

BenÉT, Stephen Vincent (1898-1943)

Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914?)

Bishop, Elizabeth (1911- )

Bishop, John Peale (1892-1944)

Blackmur, Richard (1904- )

Bodenheim, Maxwell (1893-1954)

Bogan, Louise (1897- )

Bowles, Paul (1910- )

Brooks, Cleanth (1906- )

Brooks, Van Wyck (1886- )

Buck, Pearl (1892- )

Burke, Kenneth (1897-)

Burns, John Horne (1916-1953)

Cabell, James Branch (1879-)

Caldwell, Erskine (1903- )

Capote, Truman (1924- )

Cather, Willa (1873-1947)

Ciardi, John (1916-)

Clark, Walter Van Tilburg (1908- )

Cowley, Nalcolm (1898- )

Cozzens, James Gould (1903- )

Crane, Hart (1899-1932)

Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)

Cullen, Countee (1903-1946)

Cummings, Edward Estlin (1894- )

Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.) (1886- )

Dos Passos, John (1896- )

Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945)

Eberhart, Richard (1904-)

Edmonds, Walter

Eliot, T. S. (1888- )

Ellison, Ralph (1914- )

Farrell, James Thomas (1904- )

Fast, Howard (1904- )

Faulkner, William (1897- )

Fearing, Kenneth (1902- )

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (1879-1958)

Fisher, Vardis (1895- )

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940)

Fitzgerald, Robert (1910- )

Fletcher, John Gould (1886-1950)

Fowlie, Wallace (1908- )

Frost, Robert (1875- )

Garrigue, Jean (1914- )

Ginsberg, Allen (1926- )

Glasgow, Ellen (1874-1945)

Gold, Herbert (1924- )

Goyen, William (1918- )

Gregory, Horace (1898- )

Guthrie A. B., Jr. (1901- )

Hayes, Alfred (1911- )

Hearn, Lafcadio (1850-1904)

Hellman, Lillian (1905- )

Hemingway, Ernest (1898- )

Hersey, John (1914- )

Howard, Sidney (1891-1939)

Howells, William Dean (1837-1920)

Hughes, Langston (1902- )

Inge, William (1913- )

Jackson, Shirley (1919- )

James, Henry (1843-1916)

Jarell, Randall (1914- )

Jeffers, Robinson (1887- )

Kantor, Mackinlay (1904- )

Kerouac, Jack (1922- )

Kingsley, Sidney (1906- )

Kreymborg, Alfred (1883- )

Kunitz, Stanley (1905- )

Lardner, Ring (1885-1933)

Levin, Meyer (1905- )

Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951)

Lewisohn, Ludwig (1882-1956)

Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931)

London, Jack (1876-1916)

Lowell, Amy (1874-1925)

Lowell, Robert (1917- )

Mccarthy, Mary (1912- )

Mccullers, Carson (1917- )

Macleish, Archibald (1892- )

Mailer, Norman (1923- )

Malamud, Bernard (1914- )

Marquand, John P. (1893- )

Masters, Edgar Lee (1868-1950)

Mencken, H. L. (1880-1950)

Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)

Miller, Arthur (1915- )

Miller, Henry (1891- )

Moody, William Vaughan (1869-1910)

Moore, Marianne (1887- )

Moore, Merrill (1903-1957)

Morris, Wright (1910- )

Nln, Anais (1903- )

Norris, Frank (1870-1902)

O'Connor, Flannery (1926- )

Odets, Clifford (1906- )

O'Neill, Eugene (1888-1953)

Parker, Dorothy (1893- )

Patchen, Kenneth (1911- )

Porter Katherine Anne (1894- )

Pound, Ezra (1885- )

Ransom, John Crowe (1888- )

Rexroth, Kenneth (1905- )

Rice, Elmer (1892- )

Richter, Conrad (1890- )

Roberts, Elizabeth Madox (1886-1941)

Roberts, Kenneth (1885-1957)

Roethke, Theodore (1908- )

Rukeyser, Muriel (1913- )

Salinger, J. D. (1919- )

Sandburg, Carl (1878- )

Santayana, George (1863-1952)

Saroyan, William (1908- )

Sarton, May (1912- )

Schulberg, Budd (1914- )

Schwartz, Delmore (1913- )

Scott, Winfield Townley (1910- )

Shapiro, Karl (1913- )

Shaw, Irwin (1913- )

Sherwood, Robert (1896-1855)

Sinclair, Upton (1878- )

Stafford, Jean (1915- )

Stegner, Wallace (1909- )

Steinbeck, John (1902- )

Styron, William (1925- )

Tate, Allen (1899- )

Taylor, Peter (1917- )

Thurber, James (1894- )

Trilling, Lionel (1905- )

Twain, Mark (1835-1910)

Van Doren, Mark (1894- )

Van Druten, John (1901-1957)

Viereck, Peter (1919- )

Warren, Robert Penn (1905- )

Welty, Eudora (1909- )

Wescott, Glenway (1901- )

West, Nathanael (1906-1940)

Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)

Wheelock, John (1886- )

Wheelwright, John Brooks (1897-1940)

Wilbur, Richard (1921- )

Wilder, Thornton (1897- )

Williams, Tennessee (1914- )

Wilson, Edmund (1895- )

Winters, Yvor (1900)

Wolfe, Thomas (1900-1938)

Wright, Richard (1908- )
5 .

American Poetry Since 1900 ("Edgar Lee Masters" begins on p. 113)
by Louis Untermeyer. 410 pgs.

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Preface

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Illustrations

Introduction: Background

I

Robert Frost

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Carl Sandburg

Vachel Lindsay

Edgar Lee Masters

II

Amy Lowell

Ezra Pound

Conrad Aiken

Alfred Kreymborg and "Others"

III

The Lyricists -- 1

The Lyricists--2

The Rhapsodists

The Traditionalists

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The Imagists

The Impressionists

The Expressionists

The Cerebralists

V

Native Rhythms

Other Voices

Index
6 .

I Hear America ...: Literature in the United States Since 1900 ("Edgar Lee Masters" begins on p. 147)
by Vernon Loggins. 382 pgs.

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I: Introductory

II: Unpremeditated Art

III: Questioning Despair

IV: Cleaving to the Dream

V: Dominant Primordial

VI: Back of the Mask

VII: Manners

VIII: Regional Variations

IX: Iconoclasm

X: Revolution

XI: Cap and Bells

XII: Intellectualism and Experiment

XIII: Mindful of the Millions

Recommended for Reading

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Index

Index
7 .

The Man in the Mirror: William Marion Reedy and His Magazine (Chap. 17 "Crossing Spoon River")
by Max Putzel. 351 pgs.

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Part One The Shaping Years

Chapter 2 A Boy in Kerry Patch

Chapter 3 Literati in the City Room.

Chapter 4 The Decadence- From Oscar Wilde To An "American Baudelaire"

Chapter 5 The Founding of the Mirror

Chapter 6 Toward Naturalism

Part Two Turning Points

Chapter 7 The Mirror's "War Boom"

Chapter 8 Streetcars and Corruption

Chapter 9 At the Fair

Chapter 10 Roosevelt and the Free Press

Chapter 11 Theodore Dreiser

Part Three The Mirror and the Poets

Chapter 12 Real Women and Love Lyrics

Chapter 13 Three Critics In Search of an Art

Chapter 14 Ezra Pound, Poet in Exile

Chapter 15 Poets in the Market

Chapter 16 Vachel Lindsay, Poet on Native Ground

Chapter 17 Crossing Spoon River

Chapter 18 The War of the Imagists And Their Antagonists

Chapter 19 Attack from the Rear

Part Four The After-Image

Chapter 20 War and Reaction

Chapter 21 Dreiser And Harris Merton Lyon

Chapter 23 Last Reflections

Selected Bibliography Notes • Index Abbreviations Used In Bibliography and Notes

Notes

Index
8 .

A History of American Letters ("Edgar Lee Masters" begins on p. 400)
by Walter Fuller Taylor, Harry Hartwick. 682 pgs.

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Part One: Echoes of the Renaissance and Reformation

Part Two: The Shaping of the National Ideals

Part Three: The Nineteenth Century (1800-1870) Romantic Art in an Agrarian Republic

Chapter One: The Romantic Impulse and the American Environment

Chapter Two: The Middle States: Romanticism and The Profession of Letters

Chapter Three: The New England Renaissance: Romanticism And the Puritan Legacy

Chapter Four: The Old South: Romanticism, the Planter Aristocracy, and the Back Country

Chater Five: Toward Modern America: Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Part Four: The Nineteenth Century 1870-1900 Toward Realistic Art in an Urban Industrialism

Chapter One: The Changing Age and the Realistic Impulse

Chapter Two: The Fiction of Regionalism

Chapter Three: From Regionalism to Criticism in Poetry

Chapter Four: Emerging Types of Realism

Chapter Five: Heralds of the Modern Temper

Part Five: Realism and Romanticism in the Age of Multiplicity

Chapter One: The Twentieth-Century Background

Chapter Two: Central Currents in Poetry and Fiction

Chapter Three: Revolt and Experiment

Chapter Four: The Romantic Escape

Chapter Five: Divergent Trends

Prefatory Note

Index
9 .

The Small Town in American Literature (Chap. 10 "Crusaders and Skeptics")
by Ima Honaker Herron. 477 pgs.

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Copyright Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter I The Small Town in America

Chapter II The Early New England Village

Chapter III The New England Village in a New Light

Chapter IV The Town, the Brahmins, and Others

Chapter V Heavenly Destiny

Chapter VI Expounders of the Middle Border Town

Chapter VII Mark Twain and the Mississippi River Town

Chapter VIII The Long Trail: the Far Western Town

Chapter IX "Southerntown" in Back Country And Tidewater

Chapter X Crusaders and Skeptics

Chapter XI A Glance Backward

Appendix I Check-List for the Town in Early Literature

Appendix Ii Yankee Villagedom

Selected Bibliography

Index
10 .

Out of the Midwest: A Collection of Present-Day Writing (1944) ("The Hill" begins on p. 389)
by John T. Frederick. 408 pgs.

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Introduction

Mississippi (from "Ode to Walt Whitman")

The Cities

Night Diary

Bock Beer Days in St. Louis

Goofy

Rock, Church, Rock!

A Little Action

Department Store Morning

Helen, I Love You

The Citizner

The Bridge

Winter Evening

Cities of the Lakes

Ohio, Indiana, Lower Michigan

Discovery of A Father

And Almost Answers . . .

Aunt Hanner's Surprise

Hoss Sense and Nonsense

The Vampire and Grandma Nadeli

Great Men's Sons

Upper Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota

Four Little Foxes

Indian Camp

Girl Reporter

Indian Summer

Geese Flying South

Justice Court

The Dakotas, Nebraska, Western Kansas

Low Voices

Neighbour Rosicky

Riding West

North Dakota Ballgame

The Glory Trail (High-Chin Bob)

The Prairie

Sweet-Grass Range

Missouri and Eastern Kansas

The Congressman from Missouri

Country Town Sayings

Storm

Bugle Ann

Four Editorials from the Emporia Gazette

Arkansas

Iowa and Illinois

Country Men

Neighborhood Morning

Pick Coal Rhythm

Heresy at Cherokee

Cook County

Island in the Corn

On the Building of Springfield

The Farm

The Resurrection

Ancestral Iowa

Night Journey

Retired

Black-Purple in the Corn

Cemetery Hill

Prairie Waters by Night

The Women

The Hill

New Neighbors in Search of Land

The Movers

Literature with Roots
11 .

Toward the Gulf
by Edgar Lee Masters. 302 pgs.

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To William Marion Reedy

Toward the Gulf
12 .

Starved Rock
by Edgar Lee Masters. 188 pgs.

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13 .

Whitman
by Edgar Lee Masters. 342 pgs.

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Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Index
14 .

Vachel Lindsay; A Poet in America
by Edgar Lee Masters. 392 pgs.

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Introduction

Illustrations

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Chapter X

Chapter XI

Chapter XII

Chapter XIII

Chapter XIV

Chapter XV

Chapter XVI

Chapter XVII

Chapter XVIII

Chapter XIX

Index
15 .

Mark Twain: A Portrait
by Edgar Lee Masters. 260 pgs.

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Chapter · One

Chapter · Two

Chapter · Three

Chapter · Four

Chapter · Five

Chapter · Six

Chapter · Seven

Chapter · Eight

Chapter · Nine

Chapter · Ten

Chapter · Eleven

Chapter · Twelve

Chapter · Thirteen

Chapter · Fourteen

Chapter · Fifteen

Index
16 .

The Great Valley
by Edgar Lee Masters. 280 pgs.

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