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    Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868 – March 5, 1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology...
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  • River Anthology (1915) is a collection of short free verse poems by Edgar Lee Masters. The poems collectively narrate the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon...
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    via Newspapers.com. "Agnes Lee-Edgar Lee Masters Papers, 1919-1933". Explore Chicago Collections. "Agnes Lee-Edgar Lee Masters Papers, 1919–1933". mms.newberry...
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    poet and novelist Edgar Lee Masters, whose father, Hardin W. Masters, was a supporter of the licensing of saloons. Edgar Lee Masters also believed that...
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    fictional Illinois town in the 1915 poetry work Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, who was from Lewistown, which is near the river. The river rises...
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    Masters, Edgar Lee; Hallwas, John E. (1992). Spoon River Anthology: an annotated edition. Urbana, Ill.: Univ. of Illinois Press. "Edgar Lee Masters"...
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  • friends and neighbors. Her narration technique is akin in style to Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology (1915). Mary Alice is considered the most mysterious...
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    damaged or destroyed by fire at the facility. Joliet is referred to in Edgar Lee Masters' poems "Silas Dement" and "Mrs. Merritt", part of the Spoon River...
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    definite conception with the ring of the universe..." (Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters 1935, page 62) This is evidenced by the 1931 recording he made just...
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    southwest of Peoria. It is the source of Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, who lived there. Native American burial mounds are nearby at Dickson...
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    other authors, including Joel Chandler Harris, Carolyn Wells, and Edgar Lee Masters. His 1894 collaboration with Gertrude Hall, Allegretto, was dedicated...
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    1903 to 1911, Darrow was partners in the firm of Darrow, Masters and Wilson with Edgar Lee Masters, who later became a famous poet, and Francis S. Wilson...
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    Madeline Masters Stone (August 18, 1872 – September 24, 1932) was an American sculptor. She was the sister of poet Edgar Lee Masters. She was born Madeline...
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    Helen C. White, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Sinclair Lewis and poet Edgar Lee Masters of Spoon River Anthology fame. In the mid-1930s, Derleth organized...
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  • political confusion of the 1640s, it disappeared. In the early 1900s, Edgar Lee Masters commented: In the Star Chamber the council could inflict any punishment...
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  • Masters (February 3, 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri – June 14, 2015 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was an American novelist, the son of poet Edgar Lee Masters...
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    The low rents in particular attracted artists like John Sloan and Edgar Lee Masters. There was controversy in late 1934 when then-manager Jerry Gagin...
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    to have been a homage to classic writers from literature such as Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology), Ambrose Bierce (An Occurrence at Owl Creek...
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  • Lewelling — 12th Governor of Kansas Don Marquis — author and journalist Edgar Lee Masters — poet and novelist, best known as author of Spoon River Anthology...
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    Petersburg Harris Laning, admiral, United States Navy; born in Petersburg Edgar Lee Masters, lawyer and author (Spoon River Anthology); buried in Petersburg's...
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    the authors were first-time nominated among them Theodore Dreiser, Edgar Lee Masters, Frans Eemil Sillanpää (awarded in 1939), Arvid Järnefelt, Paul Valéry...
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    influence can be seen on writers as diverse as Propertius, Ezra Pound and Edgar Lee Masters. Since full and uncensored English translations became available at...
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  • BMG. It is a concept album based on the Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters. The co-author of the music is composer Nicola Piovani, who later...
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    series of literary and artistic endeavors. He published a book by poet Edgar Lee Masters, and made a documentary about mining that has been of interest to...
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  • is the fourth studio album by Richard Buckner, setting poems from Edgar Lee Masters' 1915 Spoon River Anthology to music. It was released by Overcoat...
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    White Sheets"? In 1963, Aidman adapted Spoon River Anthology by poet Edgar Lee Masters into a theater production that is still performed. He appeared on...
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    particularly strong influences on Hamlin Garland, William Allen White, and Edgar Lee Masters. He discovered aspiring African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar...
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  • monologues inspired by the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. Each of the monologues is written from the...
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    for literature Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology Fabrizio De André "L'Antologia di Spoon River: l'epica bucolica di Edgar Lee Masters". Auralcrave...
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  • in free verse. This collection was influenced by the loose form of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. An urban, racially diverse and culturally...
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