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| Degenerate sons and daughters,/ Life is too much for you— / It takes life to love life. |
| —Lucinda Matlock |
Edgar Lee
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| Edgar Lee Masters |
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| 1869–1950, American poet and biographer, b. Garnett, Kans. He maintained a successful law practice in Chicago from 1892 to 1920. Masters’s Spoon River Anthology (1915), a collection of epitaphs in free verse revealing the secret lives of dead citizens, was acclaimed for its treatment of small-town American life.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. |
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Pronunciation:  m s´t rz from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- Spoon River Anthology
In Masters’s collection of post-mortem autobiographical “epitaphs,” 244 former citizens of the fictional Spoon River, Illinois, tell us the truth about their lives—with the honesty no fear of consequences enables.
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- Masters, Edgar Lee, 38224 to 38235
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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