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Spoon River Anthology

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A poetic portrait of a town told through voices from the grave.

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Spoon River Anthology

Spoon River Anthology presents epitaph-like monologues that reveal the secrets, failures, desires, and contradictions of a fictional American town.

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Edgar Lee Masters died in 1950, and Spoon River Anthology was first published in 1915; these dates support the public-domain basis for this English edition.

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Spoon River Anthology

by

Edgar Lee Masters

Capitolo in anteprimaThe HillAnteprima

Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley,

The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the

fighter?

All, all are sleeping on the hill.

One passed in a fever,

One was burned in a mine,

One was killed in a brawl,

One died in a jail,

One fell from a bridge toiling for children and wife—

All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.

Where are Ella, Kate, Mag, Lizzie and Edith,

The tender heart, the simple soul, the loud, the proud, the happy one?—

All, all are sleeping on the hill.

One died in shameful child-birth,

One of a thwarted love,

One at the hands of a brute in a brothel,

One of a broken pride, in the search for heart’s desire;

One after life in far-away London and Paris

Was brought to her little space by Ella and Kate and Mag—

All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.

Where are Uncle Isaac and Aunt Emily,

And old Towny Kincaid and Sevigne Houghton,

And Major Walker who had talked

With venerable men of the revolution?—

All, all are sleeping on the hill.

They brought them dead sons from the war,

And daughters whom life had crushed,

And their children fatherless, crying—

All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.

Where is Old Fiddler Jones

Who played with life all his ninety years,

Braving the sleet with bared breast,

Drinking, rioting, thinking neither of wife nor kin,

Nor gold, nor love, nor heaven?

Lo! he babbles of the fish-frys of long ago,

Of the horse-races of long ago at Clary’s Grove,

Of what Abe Lincoln said

One time at Springfield.

Capitolo in anteprimaHod PuttAnteprima

Here I lie close to the grave

Of Old Bill Piersol,

Who grew rich trading with the Indians, and who

Afterwards took the Bankrupt Law

And emerged from it richer than ever

Myself grown tired of toil and poverty

And beholding how Old Bill and others grew in wealth

Robbed a traveler one Night near Proctor’s Grove,

Killing him unwittingly while doing so,

For which I was tried and hanged.

That was my way of going into bankruptcy.

Now we who took the bankrupt law in our respective ways

Sleep peacefully side by side.

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In questa edizione

  1. 01Full text
  2. 02The Hill
  3. 03Hod Putt
  4. 04Ollie McGee
  5. 05Fletcher McGee
  6. 06Robert Fulton Tanner
  7. 07Cassius Hueffer
  8. 08Serepta Mason
  9. 09Amanda Barker
  10. 10Constance Hately
  11. 11Chase Henry
  12. 12Harry Carey Goodhue
  13. 13Judge Somers
  14. 14Kinsey Keene
  15. 15Benjamin Pantier
  16. 16Mrs. Benjamin Pantier
  17. 17Reuben Pantier
  18. 18Emily Sparks
  19. 19Trainor, the Druggist
  20. 20Daisy Fraser
  21. 21Benjamin Fraser
  22. 22Minerva Jones
  23. 23“Indignation” Jones
  24. 24“Butch” Weldy
  25. 25Doctor Meyers
  26. 26Mrs. Meyers
  27. 27Knowlt Hoheimer
  28. 28Lydia Puckett
  29. 29Frank Drummer
  30. 30Hare Drummer
  31. 31Conrad Siever
  32. 32Doc Hill
  33. 33Andy The Night-Watch
  34. 34Sarah Brown
  35. 35Percy Bysshe Shelley
  36. 36Flossie Cabanis
  37. 37Julia Miller
  38. 38Johnnie Sayre
  39. 39Charlie French
  40. 40Zenas Witt
  41. 41Theodore the Poet
  42. 42The Town Marshal
  43. 43Jack McGuire
  44. 44Jacob Goodpasture
  45. 45Dorcas Gustine
  46. 46Nicholas Bindle
  47. 47Harold Arnett
  48. 48Margaret Fuller Slack
  49. 49George Trimble
  50. 50Dr. Siegfried Iseman
  51. 51“Ace” Shaw
  52. 52Lois Spears
  53. 53Justice Arnett
  54. 54Willard Fluke
  55. 55Aner Clute
  56. 56Lucius Atherton
  57. 57Homer Clapp
  58. 58Deacon Taylor
  59. 59Sam Hookey
  60. 60Cooney Potter
  61. 61Fiddler Jones
  62. 62Nellie Clark
  63. 63Louise Smith
  64. 64Herbert Marshall
  65. 65George Gray
  66. 66Hon. Henry Bennett
  67. 67Griffy the Cooper
  68. 68Sersmith the Dentist
  69. 69A. D. Blood
  70. 70Robert Southey Burke
  71. 71Dora Williams
  72. 72Mrs. Williams
  73. 73William and Emily
  74. 74The Circuit Judge
  75. 75Blind Jack
  76. 76John Horace Burleson
  77. 77Nancy Knapp
  78. 78Barry Holden
  79. 79State’s Attorney Fallas
  80. 80Wendell P. Bloyd
  81. 81Francis Turner
  82. 82Franklin Jones
  83. 83John M. Church
  84. 84Russian Sonia
  85. 85Isa Nutter
  86. 86Barney Hainsfeather
  87. 87Petit, the Poet
  88. 88Pauline Barrett
  89. 89Mrs. Charles Bliss
  90. 90Mrs. George Reece
  91. 91Rev. Lemuel Wiley
  92. 92Rev. Abner Peet
  93. 93Jefferson Howard
  94. 94Judge Selah Lively
  95. 95Albert Schirding
  96. 96Jonas Keene
  97. 97Eugenia Todd
  98. 98Yee Bow
  99. 99Washington McNeely
  100. 100Paul McNeely
  101. 101Mary McNeely
  102. 102Daniel M’Cumber
  103. 103Georgine Sand Miner
  104. 104Thomas Rhodes
  105. 105Ida Chicken
  106. 106Penniwit, the Artist
  107. 107Jim Brown
  108. 108Robert Davidson
  109. 109Elsa Wertman
  110. 110Hamilton Greene
  111. 111Ernest Hyde
  112. 112Roger Heston
  113. 113Amos Sibley
  114. 114Mrs. Sibley
  115. 115Adam Weirauch
  116. 116Ezra Bartlett
  117. 117Amelia Garrick
  118. 118John Hancock Otis
  119. 119Anthony Findlay
  120. 120John Cabanis
  121. 121The Unknown
  122. 122Alexander Throckmorton
  123. 123Widow McFarlane
  124. 124Carl Hamblin
  125. 125Editor Whedon
  126. 126Eugene Carman
  127. 127Clarence Fawcett
  128. 128W. Lloyd Garrison Standard
  129. 129Professor Newcomer
  130. 130Ralph Rhodes
  131. 131Mickey M’Grew
  132. 132Rosie Roberts
  133. 133Oscar Hummel
  134. 134Josiah Tompkins
  135. 135Roscoe Purkapile
  136. 136Mrs. Purkapile
  137. 137Mrs. Kessler
  138. 138Harmon Whitney
  139. 139Bert Kessler
  140. 140Lambert Hutchins
  141. 141Lillian Stewart
  142. 142Hortense Robbins
  143. 143Batterton Dobyns
  144. 144Jacob Godbey
  145. 145Walter Simmons
  146. 146Tom Beatty
  147. 147Roy Butler
  148. 148Searcy Foote
  149. 149Edmund Pollard
  150. 150Thomas Trevelyan
  151. 151Percival Sharp
  152. 152Hiram Scates
  153. 153Peleg Poague
  154. 154Jeduthan Hawley
  155. 155Abel Melveny
  156. 156Oaks Tutt
  157. 157Elliott Hawkins
  158. 158Voltaire Johnson
  159. 159English Thornton
  160. 160Enoch Dunlap
  161. 161Ida Frickey
  162. 162Seth Compton
  163. 163Felix Schmidt
  164. 164Schrœder The Fisherman
  165. 165Richard Bone
  166. 166Silas Dement
  167. 167Dillard Sissman
  168. 168Jonathan Houghton
  169. 169E. C. Culbertson
  170. 170Shack Dye
  171. 171Hildrup Tubbs
  172. 172Henry Tripp
  173. 173Granville Calhoun
  174. 174Henry C. Calhoun
  175. 175Alfred Moir
  176. 176Perry Zoll
  177. 177Dippold the Optician
  178. 178Magrady Graham
  179. 179Archibald Higbie
  180. 180Tom Merritt
  181. 181Mrs. Merritt
  182. 182Elmer Karr
  183. 183Elizabeth Childers
  184. 184Edith Conant
  185. 185Charles Webster
  186. 186Father Malloy
  187. 187Ami Green
  188. 188Calvin Campbell
  189. 189Henry Layton
  190. 190Harlan Sewall
  191. 191Ippolit Konovaloff
  192. 192Henry Phipps
  193. 193Harry Wilmans
  194. 194John Wasson
  195. 195Many Soldiers
  196. 196Godwin James
  197. 197Lyman King
  198. 198Caroline Branson
  199. 199Anne Rutledge
  200. 200Hamlet Micure
  201. 201Mabel Osborne
  202. 202William H. Herndon
  203. 203Rebecca Wasson
  204. 204Rutherford McDowell
  205. 205Hannah Armstrong
  206. 206Lucinda Matlock
  207. 207Davis Matlock
  208. 208Herman Altman
  209. 209Jennie M’Grew
  210. 210Columbus Cheney
  211. 211Wallace Ferguson
  212. 212Marie Bateson
  213. 213Tennessee Claflin Shope
  214. 214Plymouth Rock Joe
  215. 215Imanuel Ehrenhardt
  216. 216Samuel Gardner
  217. 217Dow Kritt
  218. 218William Jones
  219. 219William Goode
  220. 220J. Milton Miles
  221. 221Faith Matheny
  222. 222Scholfield Hurley
  223. 223Willie Metcalf
  224. 224Willie Pennington
  225. 225The Village Atheist
  226. 226John Ballard
  227. 227Julian Scott
  228. 228Alfonso Churchill
  229. 229Zilpha Marsh
  230. 230James Garber
  231. 231Lydia Humphrey
  232. 232Le Roy Goldman
  233. 233Gustav Richter
  234. 234Arlo Will
  235. 235Captain Orlando Killion
  236. 236Jeremy Carlisle
  237. 237Joseph Dixon
  238. 238Judson Stoddard
  239. 239Russell Kincaid
  240. 240Aaron Hatfield
  241. 241Isaiah Beethoven
  242. 242Elijah Browning
  243. 243Webster Ford
  244. 244The Spooniad
  245. 245Epilogue

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