The Enduring River: Edgar Lee Masters' Uncollected Spoon River Poems

by Edgar Lee Masters

Book Overview

Masters' Spoon River Anthology (1915) was "the most read and most talked-of volume of poetry that had ever been written in America." The author then returned to the Illinois folk and countryside in a sequel, The New Spoon River (1924). Less well known, even among scholars, are the dozens of other poems Masters set in the area he made famous.

Now Herbert K. Russell brings together for the first time the best of these lesser-known...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809316854
• ISBN13: 9780809316854
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 9.3"