This edition of Spoon River Anthology probes the social background of the smalltown world that Edgar Lee Masters loved and hated--and finally transmuted into powerful literary art.

Through the semi-dramatic adoption of various selves he narrates the stories of a range of Lake District inhabitants, most famously in the tragic tale of the ruined cottage; airs views on the French and Industrial Revolutions (attacking the ...

A collection of unusual free-form poems that collectively describe the life of the fictional town of Spoon River. Includes all 212 characters, providing 244 epitaphs of dead citizens, delivered by the dead themselves.

In so doing, he provides a demonstration of that very process, captured in the pages of this extraordinary new book.

A sourcebook of Roman inscriptions which reveal not only the daily lives of average Romans, but the way scholars infer the facts of Roman civilization from non-literary records. For courses in Roman civilization at all levels.