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Edgar Lee Masters
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This 1918 verse collection includes the author's epitaph, "To-morrow is my Birthday," as well as "Cities of the Plain," "Excluded Middle," "Samuel Butler, et al," "Johnny Appleseed," "Victor Rafolski on Art," "Delilah," "Bertrand and Gourgaud Talk over Old Times," "Draw the Sword, O Republic," "Neanderthal," and many others.
3) Mitch Miller
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Named after the author's best friend from childhood, Masters's first (1920) novel is a charming tale of two boys growing up in the Mississippi River Valley in 1900. Mitch sets out to relive Tom Sawyer in what one critic called the best boy's story of the generation.
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Originally published in "Reedy's Mirror" from May 29, 1914 until January 5, 1915 and then first in book form in 1915 with an expanded edition in 1916, "Spoon River Anthology" is a collection of poetry inspired by the tombstones of the dead in a small rural American town. There is no real Spoon River as the entire town and its inhabitants are fictional but much of the town and its deceased occupants are based in part on Masters' own childhood growing...
5) Starved Rock
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This 1919 collection of more than 40 poems includes "Creation," "Tyrannosaurus: or Burning Letters," "Lord Byron to Doctor Polidori," "A Woman of Forty," "William Shakespeare," "By the Waters of Babylon," "The Christian Statesman," "Winged Victory," "Oh You Sabbatarians!", "Pallas Athene," "Chicago," and "Inexorable Deities."
6) The Open Sea
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The poems in this evocative collection are written in the same vein as Masters's tour de force, Spoon River Anthology. In free verse, Masters gives voice to a gathering of historical figures and fictitious characters who tell their stories-both the poignant and the sordid-from places as diverse as ancient Rome, Babylon, and the American Midwest. Among the selections are "Adelaide and John Wilkes Booth," and "Invocation to the Gods."
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This 1916 gathering of verse follows Masters's landmark volume, Spoon River Anthology. Poems include "Fort Dearborn," "Captain John Whistler," "Lincoln and Douglas Debates," "The Typical American?", "Come, Republic," "Achilles Deatheridge," "To a Spirochaeta," "My Dog Ponto," "The Gospel of Mark, "Theodore Dreiser," "Monsieur D-to the Psychoanalyst," and many others.
