Title

Spoon River Anthology

Authors

Edgar Lee Masters

Season

1966-1967

Performance Dates

October 10, 11, 13, 1966

Director

Sister Mary Charity, C.S.J.

Files

Description

EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1869-1950) had been a quiet and successful lawyer in Chicago for 24 years when his SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY appeared in 1915 and immediately rivaled Walt Whitman's LEAVES OF GRASS as the most controversial volume in American literature. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY contains 244 miniature, unsentimentalized autobiographies of the thwarted souls - drunkards, skinflints, secret saints and private lechers, dreamers and idealists - he had known in his boyhood towns of Petersburg and Lewistown, Illinois, on the Spoon River.

Document Type

Program

Publisher

Fontbonne University Archives

City

St. Louis, MO