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Book review:

Spoon River Anthology

 

by Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950)

New York: The Macmillan Company, c1914-1944, publ. 1967

306 pages

 

The reputation of Spoon River Anthology is indisputable.

The reality is a matter for each reader.

This is an exotic but deadened miscellany that tirelessly revisits a few themes. I won’t say there’s no inspiration, but you need a miner’s headlamp to find it here and there.

Many of the folks who are pushing up daisies near the Spoon River just weren’t really terribly interesting people when they were alive.

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