Spoon River Anthology

A CLASSIC IN AMERICAN POETRY... When <strong>Spoon River Anthology</strong> was published in1915 it garnered immediate national attention for its truth and its ... » 

A CLASSIC IN AMERICAN POETRY... When Spoon River Anthology was published in1915 it garnered immediate national attention for its truth and its shockingtransgression of societal mores. A collection of poems from the graveyard of arural Illinois town Spoon River Anthology poignantly captures the politicslove betrayals alliances hopes and failures of this small American town.Here is the respected doctor jailed for swindling here is the chaste wiferapt with desire here is the pastor angry and resentful here is the quietman filled with unrequited love and devotion. Beneath the midwestern values ofhonesty community family hard work and chastity Spoon River Anthologyreveals the disillusionment and corruption in modern life. With the publicationof Spoon River Anthology Masters exploded the powerful myth that smalltownAmerica was a social utopia. Here for the first time was a community thatpeople recognized in its wholeness and complexity. Comprised of distinctlymodern poems that collectively read as a novel Spoon River Anthology is thestory of a quiet midwestern town whose truths and contradictions are celebratedby its dead. «