The dead of a small Illinois town speak their own epitaphs in free verse, confessing the secrets, failures, and quiet heroisms their gravestones conceal. Masters’s anthology of 244 interlocking monologues scandalized and thrilled America, becoming one of the best-selling poetry books ever written.
Sources for Edgar Lee Masters — Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee Masters — Spoon River Anthology in Poetry
Held in the Poetry chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Hesiod — Works and Days (c. 700 BCE)
- Anonymous — Classic of Poetry (Shijing) (c. 1000–600 BCE)
- Various Japanese poets — Manyoshu (c. 759 CE)
- Ferdowsi — Shahnameh (1010)
- Hafez — Divan (14th century)
- Rumi — Masnavi (13th century)
- Dante Alighieri — The Divine Comedy (c. 1320)
- Sappho — Poems (c. 600 BCE)
- Pindar — Odes (c. 470 BCE)
- Horace — Complete Works (c. 23 BCE)
- Li Po — The Works of Li Po, the Chinese Poet (8th century)
- Omar Khayyam — Rubaiyat (12th century)
- Dante Alighieri — The New Life (La Vita Nuova) (c. 1294)
- Walt Whitman — Leaves of Grass (1855)
- Emily Dickinson — Poems (1890)
- Rabindranath Tagore — Gitanjali (1912)
- Sir Walter Scott — The Lady of the Lake (1810)