Edgar Lee Masters - English Version

The American poet and writer Edgar Lee Masters, born on August 23, 1868, grew up on his grandfather's farm, later becoming a famous Chicago lawyer. His poems and plays went unnoticed until the publication of the work "Spoon River Anthology" (Spoon River Anthology) in 1915, a collection of 245 poems, written in the form of epitaphs, in which the life of each of the people buried in the cemetery of an imaginary American village was told.