Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town Volume 1

by Jason Stacy

Book Overview

From Main Street to Stranger Things, how poetry changed our idea of small town life

A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in 1915, Spoon River...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252085825
• ISBN13: 9780252085826
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"