They provide a holistic inventory of the multitude of life narratives making up a fictional town called Spoon River, loosely based on a river that wound around Masters’s hometown, Lewistown, Illinois. Superseding seventy-five years of misdirected critical commentary, the annotated Spoon River Anthology comprehends a poet and his towering work in an entirely new way. Spoon River Anthology is a 1915 collection of poems written in free verse by Edgar Lee Masters, an American dramatist, lawyer, and poet. Hallwas's approach combines cultural, biographical, philosophical, psychoanalytic, mythic, and symbolic insights-and concludes with a stunning reassessment of "Our New Poet." An extensive introduction links the poems to Whitman and reveals the influence of Browning, Goethe, and Spinoza on Masters. Extensive annotations identify the people whose lives inspired the 243 poetic accounts of frustration, violence, struggle, and triumph that shocked American readers. Hallwas directs a new edition that enriches and interprets Masters's classic for a new generation of admirers. About the BookOne of the most striking and original achievements in American poetry, Spoon River Anthology probed the social background of the small-town world that Edgar Lee Masters loved and hated-and finally transmuted into powerful literary art.
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