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A Dictionary of American History
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Masters, Edgar Lee
Masters, Edgar Lee (b. Garnett, Kans., 23 August 1869; d. Melrose Park, Pa., 5 March 1950) A trained lawyer, Masters had literary ambitions and sought success as a poet, novelist, and biographer. He won critical acclaim for his Spoon River Anthology (1915), a series of free-verse monologues in which several hundred corpses speak from a small-town cemetery about their past. Masters’s Spoon River Anthology was a pioneering literary work that foreshadowed a major theme in US literature, namely the “revolt from the village,” or the alienation of urban, 20th-century writers from the idyllic image of rural American life. Masters’s poetry anticipated the fiction of Sherwood Anderson and Main Street by Sinclair Lewis.
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Chicago:
Thomas L. Purvis, "Masters, Edgar Lee," A Dictionary of American History in A Dictionary of American History (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Reference, 1995), Original Sources, accessed July 2, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4YG1ZDU97V6Y8CB.
MLA:
Purvis, Thomas L. "Masters, Edgar Lee." A Dictionary of American History, in A Dictionary of American History, Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell Reference, 1995, Original Sources. 2 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4YG1ZDU97V6Y8CB.
Harvard:
Purvis, TL, 'Masters, Edgar Lee' in A Dictionary of American History. cited in 1995, A Dictionary of American History, Blackwell Reference, Cambridge, Mass.. Original Sources, retrieved 2 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4YG1ZDU97V6Y8CB.
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