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Jason Stacy

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1) Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the myth of the American small town

Author

Stacy, Jason

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Pub. Date

[2021]

Language

English

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"A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in 1915, Spoon River Anthology won praise from modernists while becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy charts the...