Franklin Library: Edgar Lee Masters: Spoon River Poems

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Franklin Library: Edgar Lee Master: Spoon River Anthology Franklin Library FULL leather top-of-the-line edition of Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology," Illustrated by Harry Pincus, a Limited edition, one of the 100 GREATEST MASTERPIECES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE series, published in 1983. Bound in a Most Handsome brown moroccan cowhide, the book has tan French moire silk endleaves, hubbed spine, satin ribbon, 22 kt. gold gilding on three edges--in FINE condition. Edgar Lee Masters, who lived from 1868-1950, was born in Kansas. He was a lawyer in Chicago from 1891-1920. Masters became enormously famous with the publication of "Spoon River Anthology" in 1915---free-verse epitaphs revealing the secret lives of the persons buried in the Midwestern Cemetery. One of these "residents" is 'Lucinda Matlock' who "went to the dances at Chandlerville/And played snap-out at Winchester. . .she "found Davis/And we were married and lived together for seventy years/Enjoying, working, raising the twelve children,/Eight of whom we lost/Ere I had reached the age of sixty. . ./At ninety-six I had lived enough, that is all,/And passed to a sweet repose./What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness,/Anger, discontent and drooping hopes / Degenerate sons and daughters,/Life is too strong for you----/It takes life to love Life." Other "residents" include: read more

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