What is the storyline of Spoon River Anthology?

The Spoon River Anthology is a collection of 245 free-verse epitaphs in the form of monologues. They are spoken from beyond the grave by former residents of a dreary, confining small town like those Masters himself had known during his Illinois boyhood.

What did Edgar Lee Masters write about?

Masters wrote biographies of Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln the Man, 1931, in which Masters’ attacks on Lincoln were poorly received by critics and historians), Walt Whitman (1937), and Mark Twain (1938).

What Is a Spoon River?

The Spoon River is a 147-mile-long (237 km) tributary of the Illinois River in west-central Illinois in the United States. The river drains largely agricultural prairie country between Peoria and Galesburg.

What happened to Minerva Jones?

In this epitaph, the village poetess, Minerva Jones, presents herself as a victim of the hooting mobs of the town, while also a victim left alone and pregnant by another Spoon River character, “‘Butch’ Weldy,” and finally she loses her life after being victimized by a medical procedure performed by another Spoon River …

Where is the Spoon River located?

central Illinois
The Spoon River, a tributary of the Illinois River, is located in west-central Illinois. It is 170 miles in length and has a drainage area of approximately 1,860 square miles. Its major tributaries include Cedar Creek, Court Creek, and Haw Creek.

Who wrote Spoon River Anthology?

Edgar Lee MastersSpoon River Anthology / Author

Will some one go to the village newspaper and gather into a book the verses I wrote I thirsted so for love I hungered so for life?

He left me to my fate with Doctor Meyers; And I sank into death, growing numb from the feet up, Like one stepping deeper and deeper into a stream of ice. Will some one go to the village newspaper, And gather into a book the verses I wrote?– I thirsted so for love! I hungered so for life!