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Spoon River Anthology — Edgar Lee Masters

Spoon River Anthology

Edgar Lee Masters

  • Poetry
  • Book language: English
  • 283 pages

Spoon River Anthology is a collection of free-verse epitaphs spoken by the dead of a fictional Illinois town. Their brief monologues reveal everyday lives, hidden connections and quiet secrets. It is worth hearing for its unusual mosaic of small-town America and its understated irony.

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Spoon River Anthology
by Edgar Lee Masters
Contents
A
Altman, Herman
Armstrong, Hannah
Arnett, Harold
Arnett, Justice
Atheist, The Village
Atherton, Lucius
B
Ballard, John
Barker, Amanda
Barrett, Pauline
Bartlett, Ezra
Bateson, Marie
Beatty, Tom
Beethoven, Isaiah
Bennett, Hon. Henry
Bindle, Nicholas
Bliss, Mrs. Charles

Blood, A. D.
Bloyd, Wendell P.
Bone, Richard
Branson, Caroline
Brown, Jim
Brown, Sarah
Browning, Elijah
Burke, Robert Southey
Burleson, John Horace
Butler, Roy
C
Cabanis, Flossie
Cabanis, John
Calhoun, Granville
Calhoun, Henry C.
Campbell, Calvin
Carlisle, Jeremy
Carman, Eugene
Cheney, Columbus
Chicken, Ida
Childers, Elizabeth
Church, John M.
Churchill, Alfonso
Clapp, Homer
Clark, Nellie
Clute, Aner
Compton, Seth
Conant, Edith
Culbertson, E. C.
D
Davidson, Robert
Dement, Silas
Dippold the Optician
Dixon, Joseph
Dobyns, Batterton
Drummer, Frank
Drummer, Hare

Dunlap, Enoch
Dye, Shack
E
Ehrenhardt, Imanuel
Epilogue
F
Fallas, State’s Attorney
Fawcett, Clarence
Ferguson, Wallace
Findlay, Anthony
Fluke, Willard
Foote, Searcy
Ford, Webster
Fraser, Benjamin
Fraser, Daisy
French, Charlie
Frickey, Ida
G
Garber, James
Gardner, Samuel
Garrick, Amelia
Godbey, Jacob
Goldman, Le Roy
Goode, William
Goodhue, Harry Carey
Goodpasture, Jacob
Graham, Magrady
Gray, George
Green, Ami
Greene, Hamilton
Griffy, The Cooper
Gustine, Dorcas
H

Hainsfeather, Barney
Hamblin, Carl
Hately, Constance
Hatfield, Aaron
Hawkins, Elliott
Hawley, Jeduthan
Henry, Chase
Herndon, William H.
Heston, Roger
Higbie, Archibald
Hill, Doc
Hill, The
Hoheimer, Knowlt
Holden, Barry
Hookey, Sam
Houghton, Jonathan
Howard, Jefferson
Hueffer, Cassius
Hummel, Oscar
Humphrey, Lydia
Hurley, Scholfield
Hutchins, Lambert
Hyde, Ernest
I
Iseman, Dr. Siegfried
J
Jack, Blind
James, Godwin
Joe, Plymouth Rock
Johnson, Voltaire
Jones, Fiddler
Jones, Franklin
Jones, Indignation
Jones, Minerva
Jones, William
Judge, The Circuit

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Contents

  1. Spoon River Anthology
  2. Contents
  3. The Hill
  4. Hod Putt
  5. Ollie McGee
  6. Fletcher McGee
  7. Robert Fulton Tanner
  8. Cassius Hueffer
  9. Serepta Mason
  10. Amanda Barker
  11. Constance Hately
  12. Chase Henry
  13. Harry Carey Goodhue
  14. Judge Somers
  15. Kinsey Keene
  16. Benjamin Pantier
  17. Mrs. Benjamin Pantier
  18. Reuben Pantier
  19. Emily Sparks
  20. Trainor, the Druggist
  21. Daisy Fraser
  22. Benjamin Fraser
  23. Minerva Jones
  24. “Indignation” Jones
  25. “Butch” Weldy
  26. Doctor Meyers
  27. Mrs. Meyers
  28. Knowlt Hoheimer
  29. Lydia Puckett
  30. Frank Drummer

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