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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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