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OrganicPeoplePR: EDGAR LEE MASTERS 19-20th Century Poet, Novelist, Biographer, Lawyer, Spoon River Anthology. (August 23, 1868- March 5, 1950.)
ManOfLaBook: Fun Facts Friday: Edgar Lee Masters
NoahSabich: “Act well your part,
there all the honor lies.”
― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
bachbeethoven: March 5 otd
d. 1876 – Marie d'Agoult, German-French historian, author (b. 1805)
d. 1950 – Edgar Lee Masters, American poet, author, playwright (b. 1868)
d. 1953 – Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter, producer (b. 1897)
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lpdetorres: Edgar Lee Masters: Thomas Trevelyan
atticesoterica: Vintage First Day of Issue Postage Stamps, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Ernie Pyle, World War II, Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
zadmakaveli: The Spoon River Anthalogy by Edgar Lee Masters is a Masterpiece. Pun intended. lol
solana_sailor: In youth my wings were strong and tireless,
But I did not know the mountains.
In age I knew the mountains
But my weary wings could not follow my vision.
Genius is wisdom and youth.
“Edgar Lee Masters” - Spoon River Anthology
snowflakecti: Minerva Jones
By Edgar Lee Masters
I am Minerva, the village poetess,
Hooted at, jeered at by the Yahoos of the street
For my heavy body, cock-eye, and r
magazineforest: Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town -
Silent_Hill_Rad: We usually don't do these but as a fellow writer (Me, myself Emmitt)
The 5 things you will find in my writing. Well I'll list influences.
1. Lynch
2. Poe
3. Edgar Lee Masters
4. Burroughs
5. Kerouac
I'm not putting myself to their level but I hope to do them proud.
GratitudeNGuts: Poetry makes my heart positively sing… I love it all, but my go-to has always been Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology. I’ve always found it ironic that epitaphs would bring me peace. If you could add your poem to Spoon River, what would you say?
egtrejos: Immortality is not a gift,
Immortality is an achievement;
And only those who strive mightily
Shall possess it.
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The Village Atheist - Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950)
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ScottSnyder_CMG: MRS. GEORGE REECE To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty. It may serve a turn in your life.
Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
rc_wisehack: are autographed; in them are found the signatures of and letters from James Branch Cabell, William Saroyan, Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters, Willia Cather, Scott Fitzgerald, James T. Farrell, Aldous Huxley, and Leon Trotsky, who inscribed a copy of his Geschichte der Russichen
bobproehl: "And if the people find you can fiddle,
Why, fiddle you must, for all your life."
—Edgar Lee Masters
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ehutchinson1513: There are lots of great intersections between literature and popular music, but far and away the best imo is Richard Buckner's THE HILL, a series of settings of poems from Edgar Lee Masters's SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY (themselves an example of a conceit going back to Greek antiquity,
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billpeet4ever: GEORGE GRAY BY EDGAR LEE MASTERS
I have studied many times
The marble which was chiseled for me -
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Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid;
Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances.
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To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness,
But life
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egtrejos: When folly and wisdom are no more,
And fire is no more,
Because man is no more;
When the dead world slowly spinning
Drifts and falls through the void—
My light with yours
In the Light of Lights forever!
- Edgar Lee Masters
PublicDiscourse: The Frightening America of Edgar Lee Masters Has Come to Life
iswearenglish: Anne Rutledge Epitaph by Edgar Lee Masters - Summary Analysis - Anne Rutledge by Edgar Lee Masters
1868 – 1950
atticesoterica: Vintage First Day of Issue Postage Stamps, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Ernie Pyle, World War II, Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
atticesoterica: Vintage First Day of Issue Postage Stamps, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Ernie Pyle, World War II, Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
atticesoterica: Vintage First Day of Issue Postage Stamps, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Ernie Pyle, World War II, Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
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persoverant: Google search: Sufjan Stevens Edgar Lee Masters
missanabeem: He wrote another inspired by Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River anthology, and one reinterpreting the Gospels, including singing from the perspective of the Penitent Thief 3/x
kitsuneartemis: So about two years ago, I started on a project called 'Northwest Passages' where I wrote poems about different Franklin Expedition crewmen in the style of Edgar Lee Masters' 'Spoon River Anthology', in which the dead speak to the reader.
intodivinenames: Happened to read something meant to be a poem in twitter a few days ago. Reminded me of this from pgw “… along comes Mr. Edgar Lee Masters and invents vers libre.”It is too early yet to judge the full effects of this man’s horrid discovery”
Kulambq: 'I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea,
And the silence of the city when it pauses,
And the silence of a man and a maid,
And the silence for which music alone finds the word,
And the silence of the woods before the winds of spring begin.'
Edgar Lee Masters
VinceCzyz: I ended up with forty acres;
I ended up with a broken fiddle--
And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories,
And not a single regret.
--Edgar Lee Masters, "Fiddler Jones"
Bobbole4Bobbole: O leaves of me
Too sere for coronal wreaths, and fit alone
For urns of memory, treasured, perhaps, as themes
For hearts heroic, fearless singers and livers-
Delphic Apollo!
Edgar Lee Masters - Spoon River Anthology
ttulipenoire: 3 of 5 stars to Antologia di Spoon River by Edgar Lee Masters
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atticesoterica: Vintage First Day of Issue Postage Stamps, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Ernie Pyle, World War II, Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
atticesoterica: Vintage First Day of Issue Postage Stamps, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Ernie Pyle, World War II, Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
atticesoterica: Vintage First Day of Issue Postage Stamps, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Ernie Pyle, World War II, Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
APhilosophae: Edgar Lee Masters, in ‘Lincoln the Man’, outlined this idea very well. He stated that “Clay was the Champion of that political system which doles favors to the strong in order to win and keep their adherence to the government.”
Ada78620092: ‘Antologia di Spoon River’
Edgar Lee Masters.
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LDBurnett: "We live in the hour all free of the hours gone by." - Edgar Lee Masters, *Spoon River Anthology*
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ENiedfeldt: Tonight, something a little different from me: a series of poems from one of my favorite books of poetry.
Early in my college career I took a number of classes working on an English major.
The following poems are by Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology.
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claymcleod: I read Edgar Lee Masters SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY when I was eleven and it became one of the fundamental texts in my life: a mosaic of short interconnected monologues presented as ghost stories, all recounted by the spirits of those buried in the cemetery, creating a larger tapestry
Powell_DA: Another gem from Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology," spoken from the grave.
tribstar: Thumbing through a paperback copy of “Spoon River Anthology” a few minutes before leading a recent high school class tour of Highland Lawn cemetery, led me to wonder just how its author, Edgar Lee Masters, might have handled the poetic epitaph of Ma…
tspoetry: Classic Biography: “Edgar Lee Masters” by Herbert Russell
rationaldoge: "A nuanced understanding of the origins of an imagined heartland is lost by the authors’ failure to address foundational works, including Edgar Lee Masters’s 1915 poem cycle Spoon River Anthology…"
Trouble in River City | Caroline Fraser
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tonytost: It's just 35 minutes. The cast of singers & characters makes it all go by in a breeze. The hooks, production & licks are all top of the line. But as the songs add up, it starts taking on a genuinely literary gravitas. Tom T. Hall would be jealous. Edgar Lee Masters might as well.
user69485539: “O, my friend …
My companion of infinite talks,
My inspiration,
My guide,
Through whom I saw myself at best;
…
You, a great richness.
A glory,
A charm,
Product and treasure of these States.” - Edgar Lee Masters
You all are lights in my world. I love you all forever.
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Powell_DA: My favorite collection of poems to read during Halloween month is Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters. All of the voices speak from the graveyard about their lives. This is one of my favorites "The Circuit Judge"
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andrewjlavigne: 5 of 5 stars to Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
ARTSalamode: Born 9/23: sculptors Louise Nevelson, Tony Smith, painters Suzanne Valadon, Paul Delvaux, James Carroll Beckwith, writers Euripides, Edgar Lee Masters, jazz musicians: sax John Coltrane, Frank Foster, flute Jeremy Steig, vocals Norma Winstone.
atticesoterica: Vintage First Day of Issue Postage Stamps, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Ernie Pyle, World War II, Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
atticesoterica: Vintage First Day of Issue Postage Stamps, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Ernie Pyle, World War II, Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
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toldyousoph: Edgar Lee Masters, "Antologia di Spoon River"
egtrejos: Immortality is not a gift,
Immortality is an achievement;
And only those who strive mightily
Shall possess it.
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The Village Atheist - Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950)
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OrganicPeoplePR: EDGAR LEE MASTERS 19th-20th Century Poet, Novelist, Biographer, Lawyer, Spoon River Anthology. (August 23rd, 1868- March 5th, 1950.)
abzeronow: 239. (1 day late) American author Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) had a 1927 novel titled Kit O'Brien. It is some sort of coming of age story with a teenager set in Illinois.
vze26m98: Always nice when your copy of Bullitt and Freud’s Psychological Study of Woodrow Wilson comes with a six cent Edgar Lee Masters postage stamp!
mongibeddu: A poem that ought to be rescued from oblivion—Edgar Lee Masters from The New Spoon River (1924), his sequel to Spoon River Anthology (1915).
NoahSabich: Must-read if you're from the Sangamon River area. Great cover photo of the wind mill too. Lots of memories of passing by one every day in Menard County at sunset.
"The Vision of this land : studies of Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters, and Carl Sandburg"
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josygrant: List 10 books that have stayed with you in some way. 2of 2
6. A Place Called Paradise Essie Summers
7. I Know Why Caged Birds Sing
8. The Egypt Game Zilpha Keatley Snyder
9. Our Town Thornton Wilder.
10. Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters
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NathanFrancis__: Poems:
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fbeacham: Edgar Lee Masters, whose Spoon River Anthology had a deep influence on writers of the 1920s, was born 154 ...
bufocalvin: Happy bookish birthdays, 23 August to: Nelson Demille (the John Corey series), Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology), Will Cuppy (The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody)...
MelanieJaxn: 'To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one.'
Happy birthday, Edgar Lee Masters!
ModernLibrary: Edgar Lee Masters, born August 23, 1868.
The earth keeps some vibration going
There in your heart, and that is you.
And if the people find you can fiddle,
Why, fiddle you must, for all your life.
Book_Addict: Happy birthday to writer/poet Edgar Lee Masters (August 23,1868), author of "Spoon River Anthology" (1915) and many other notable works.
AWMuseum: “The tongue may be an unruly member--
But silence poisons the soul.”
- Edgar Lee Masters, "Spoon River Anthology"
trine777: Beware of the man ... who rises to power from one suspender.
~~ Edgar Lee Masters
trine777: There are those who first oppose a good work ... but then seize it and make it their own: after the cornerstone has been laid, and the memorial tablets erected.
~~ Edgar Lee Masters
MacCocktail: “The tongue may be an unruly member--
But silence poisons the soul.”
― Edgar Lee Masters (born August 23, 1868)
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ModernLibrary: Edgar Lee Masters, author of Spoon River Anthology, a great favorite of ours, born August 23, 1868.
The earth keeps some vibration going
There in your heart, and that is you.
agoodusedbook: “To this generation I would say:
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.”
- Edgar Lee Masters
