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Person Detail: Edgar Lee Masters
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| Full Name: Edgar Lee Masters | ||
| Biography: (1868-1950) Poet, author. In 1880 his family settled at Lewiston, Illinois, near the Spoon River. Masters attended school here, and studied at Knox College, but was mainly self-educated through wide reading, acquiring a lifelong love of poetry. He was admitted to the bar in 1891, and the next year moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he maintained a successful law practice until 1920. He lived at the Hotel Chelsea in the 1930s. Meanwhile, he had published poems and stories, chiefly in various newspapers. In 1913 William Marion Reedy, editor of "Reedy's Mirror" of Saint Louis, Missouri, gave Masters a copy of "Epigrams from the Greek Anthology." This inspired Masters' most famous work, "The Spoon River Anthology," epitaphs spoken by about 250 persons buried in the graveyard of a village in the Midwest, reveling their inner lives in terms which are imaginative but essentially pessimistic. He was the father of novelist Hilary Masters. |
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| 1930 |
New York County Masters lived at the Hotel Chelsea in Manhattan, New York, in the 1930s. |
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| 1868 |
(Unknown) County Edgar Lee Masters was born in Garnett, Kansas, in 1868. |
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| 1950 |
(Unknown) County Edgar Lee Masters died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1950. |
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| 1915 |
(Unknown) County Spoon River Anthology Collection of poetry. |
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| 1950 |
(Unknown) County Edgar Lee Masters is interred at Oakland Cemetery, Petersburg, Menard County, Illinois. |
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| 1924 |
(Unknown) County The New Spoon River Collection of poetry. |
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| 1991 |
(Unknown) County The Enduring River: Edgar Lee Masters' Uncollected Spoon River Poems Edited by Herbert K. Russell. |
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| 1916 |
(Unknown) County Songs And Satires Collection of poetry. |
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| 1916 |
(Unknown) County The Great Valley Collection of poetry. |
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| 1918 |
(Unknown) County Toward The Gulf Collection of poetry. |
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| 1919 |
(Unknown) County Starved Rock Collection of poetry. |
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| 1921 |
(Unknown) County The Open Sea Collection of poetry. |
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| 1920 |
(Unknown) County Mitch Miller Novel. |
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| 1938 |
(Unknown) County Mark Twain: A Portrait Biography. |
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