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Name: Edgar Lee Masters
Birth Date: August 23, 1869
Death Date: March 6, 1950
Place of Birth: Garnett, Kansas, United States
Place of Death: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, lawyer

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Biography of Edgar Lee Masters
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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 Aug. 23, 1869, in Garnett, Kansas. A year later...
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Biography of Edgar Lee Masters
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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 two hundred poems about talkative ghosts in a midwestern cemetery. His...
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Biography of Edgar Lee Masters
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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 talkative ghosts in a midwestern cemetery. His identity was...


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Edgar Lee Masters Quotes
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Edgar Lee Masters ( 23 August , 1868 - 5 March , 1950 ) was an American poet, biographer and dramatist. He is best known for the Spoon River Anthology. Sourced In my Spanish cloak, And old slouch hat, And overshoes of felt, And Tyke, my faithful dog,...


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Edgar Lee Masters Information
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Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868 - March 5, 1950) was a American poet, biographer and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness An...


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Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
Edgar Lee Masters: Biography
04/01/2002: 1,699 words, approx. 6 pages
Edgar Lee Masters: A Biography. By Herbert K. Russell (Champaign: University. of Illinois Press, 2001. Pp. X, 462. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth $39.95.) Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology (1915) was that rarity in America, a best-selling book of poetry: seven printings in...
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A New Letter by Edgar Lee Masters.(author)(Critical Essay)
06/22/2001: 1,328 words, approx. 4 pages
Although much is known about the life of Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950), author of Spoon River Anthology (1914-16).(1) few of his letters have been published or even referred to.(2) Herb Russell has given much attention to those letters written during a crucial period...
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Take a Web trip along Illinois waterways
11/19/2007: 551 words, approx. 2 pages
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 the heart of the Midwest.There's even a historic...
 


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