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From: The Bookman[In the following excerpt, Rittenhouse favorably reviews Toward the Gulf, calling it Masters's most serious and thoughtful poetic work.] Unless one wishes to think and to face all the consequences of thinking, he...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)One of the ancient Greek poets has written: "No man knows happiness; all men / Learn misery who live beneath the sun," thereby anticipating the spirit of Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology. Though the book was...
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From: The Little Review[Sandburg was one of the central figures in the Chicago Renaissance, an early twentieth-century flowering of the arts, which vanquished the myth that the Eastern cities were the only centers of legitimate creativity in...
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From: Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary PoetryMr. Masters is a welcome, though perplexing, figure in contemporary American poetry. Welcome, because along with Mr. Frost, and perhaps Mr. Robinson and Mr. Sandburg, he is a realist, and because a vigorous strain of...
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From: New York Times Book Review[In the following essay, Boynton reviews The Tide of Time.] Where has discovered that a writer is never, “what he is *** He is an effect—an impression.” But effects are momentary and impressions mutable they depend on...
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From: The Centennial Review[In the following excerpt, Hurt analyzes how Spoon River Anthology reflects Masters's personal psychology.] To regard Spoon River merely as a sociological microcosm, the small town as world, is to leave out a great...
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From: Contemporary American Novelist: 1900-1920[Van Doren is considered one of the more important critics of the first half of the twentieth century. He worked for many years as a professor of English at Columbia University and served as literary editor and critic of...
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From: The Egoist[An American poet and critic, Pound was “the principal inventor of modern poetry,” according to Archibald MacLeish. He is chiefly renowned for his ambitious poetry cycle, the Cantos, which he revised and enlarged...
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From: The Dial[In the following excerpt, Alden offers a negative assessment of Spoon River Anthology in an essay unfavorably examining Imagism, vers libre, and other aspects of “new poetry.”] [The] Spoon River Anthology of Mr. Edgar...
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From: The Nation[In the following essay, Walton reviews Vachel Lindsey.] Utopia in Springfield is one of the most interesting and fantastic biographies in contemporary American literature. Written by Masters, who tried to reform the...
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From: William Carlos Williams Review[(essay date spring 2006) In the following essay, Boone discusses The Great American Novel as a metafictional work and deems it an innovative and unique text that "anticipates postmodern fiction."] In the early 1920s...
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From: New Republic[In the following essay, Wyatt reviews Towards the Gulf.] In the clever and modest preface of Towards the Gulf, addressed to William Marion Reedy, Edgar Lee Masters says, in describing the substance of his volume, that...
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From: PoetryDomesday Book establishes its epic claim. Not by accomplishing its specific charge, to be a census spiritual Taken of our America — although perhaps it comes nearer than any other book to such a prodigious...
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From: American Mercury[In the following excerpt, Masters reminisces about writing Spoon River Anthology.] About 1904 I began to see copies of the St. Louis Mirror; and soon I met its editor, William Marion Reedy, and we became fast friends....
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From: The New Republic[An American novelist and dramatist, Dell is best known today as the author of Moon-Calf (1920), a novel which captures the disillusioned spirit of the Jazz Age. For several years he was a member, along with Carl...
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From: PoetryI can not help but feel relieved by the general sense of tragedy that pervades Mr. Masters' [Spoon River Anthology]. There is nothing unhealthy or morbid or hopeless about it as there often is about that of European...
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From:Renaissance Quarterly (Vol. 48, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPlaywright Webster Ford appropriated Shakespearean themes in his works, most notably in 'Tis a Pity She's a Whore.' One visible influence is in his characterization of the relationship between an idealistic and impulsive...
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From:Scandinavian Studies (Vol. 66, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe 20th century Swedish poet Artur Lundkvist was an innovator who replaced the symbolist tradition with an expressionist structure. Influences on Lundkvist included countrymen such as Par Lagerkvist and Vilhelm Ekelund...
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From:The Antioch Review (Vol. 76, Issue 4)With my father banished for good when I was eighteen months old, and none of Mother's many suitors taking up permanent residence in our lives, it was my grandfather Lee--the Chicago poet Edgar Lee Masters--who provided,...
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From: The NationIn “Mitch Miller” [Masters] has attempted to write a new “Tom Sawyer” for the Spoon River district; in “Domesday Book” he has applied the method of “The Ring and the Book” to the material of Starved Rock. The impulse...