Poems of Edgar Lee Masters

Résumé du livre

The poems begin "Heart-broken that I was not with you ...," "He entered the room of my life ...," "to run a fruit store in Spoon River ...," "What does it mean that Eve ate first ...," and "How often in our chamber O adored one ...." With the poems is a sketch and note, 1919 Apr. 1 [1 item ms.]--The collection contains an essay "The genesis of Spoon River" in typescript and proofs, and a book review, 1950 Feb. 12, by Ellen Coyne Masters, Those people of Spoon River, identifying some of the people on whom the poems were bsaed [5 items typescript & print].