![]() ![]() ![]() Masters envisioned the work-over 200 short, free verse poems voiced by dead residents of the fictional Spoon River, Illinois-as "a kind of Divine Comedy," representing a full range of humanity from the noble to the foolish, the saints and-in particular-the sinners. This was the beginning of Spoon River Anthology, the book that would make his reputation and become one of the most popular and widely known works in all of American literature" (ANB). In 1914, Masters, a lawyer by trade, "began a series of poems about his boyhood experiences in western Illinois, published (under the pseudonym Webster Ford) in Reedy's Mirror (St. Small octavo, original black- and gilt-stamped blue cloth, uncut and partially unopened.įirst edition, first issue of Masters’ celebrated poetic examination of virtue and vice in the American heartland, inscribed by the poet, “For E- D- Edgar Lee Masters," a beautiful copy in original bright gilt cloth. FIRST EDITION OF SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY, INSCRIBED BY EDGAR LEE MASTERS, SCARCE IN ORIGINAL CLOTH ![]()
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