Biography EssayBeginning in May 1914 Edgar Lee Masters, then an eminently successful Chicago lawyer, published in the St. Louis magazine Reedy's Mirror, under the pseudonym Webster Ford, some two hun...
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Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950), American author and lawyer, is mainly remembered for his "Spoon River Anthology," a collection of free verse about small-town American life.Edgar Lee Masters was born on...
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Beginning in May 1914 Edgar Lee Masters, then an eminently successful Chicago lawyer, published in the St. Louis magazine Reedy's Mirror, under the pseudonym Webster Ford, some 200 poems about talkati...
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Everyone needs a road trip once in a while. And with a little travel research on the Internet, you can plot a course through places like the Illinois River Road Scenic Byway, a slice of scenery in ...
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