Edgar Lee Masters

"The Devil All the Time" spans two decades, from the end of World War II to the mid-1960s, and showcases a rogue's gallery of demented locals—it's like Edgar Lee Masters's "Spoon River Anthology" 1915 updated with perverts and murderers.

The Comic-Grotesque Goes North Sam Sacks 2011

In the heart of Illinois' beloved Spoon River country in Fulton County, Edgar Lee Masters warned near a century ago of the "false chronicles of the stones."

Jeff Biggers: Canton Lake Debacle: Gov. Quinn, Do You Know Your IEPA Might Permit the State's Most Destructive and Reckless Strip Mine? Jeff Biggers 2011

Off topic, I know - but thanks for the remind about Edgar Lee Masters and the Spoon River Anthology.

Favorite movies about courts and lawyers 2010

Clarence Darrow made his reputation in Chicago -- where he once shared an office with Edgar Lee Masters -- and this book may be the first of what is now an established genre: the legal memoir.

Adam Hanft: Who Needs the Olympics? Consolation Reading for Chicago Lovers 2009

And of course there is Edgar Lee Masters, who prefigured Obama's tsouris in the early part of the last century.

Adam Hanft: Obama: New Yorkers Cling to Style and Fashion Because they are Bitter at Their Superficial, Vacuous Lives 2008

Although these poems were written in rhymed meters, their radical imagery and subject matter make them highly experimental, particularly when put into the context of poets such as Robert Frost, Edgar Lee Masters, and Edwin Arlington Robinson.

Djuna Barnes greenintegerblog 2008

Born in Garnett, Kansas, Edgar Lee Masters was the son of a lawyer.

Edgar Lee Masters greenintegerblog 2008

Edgar Lee Masters doesn't reach high, but he does hit his target.

Archive 2006-11-01 2006

His letter describing it to Livy is a miniature masterpiece of radiant consciousness, worthy of Thomas Wolfe, Edgar Lee Masters, Thornton Wilder, or Carson McCullers in the annals of lost and holy American place.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

His letter describing it to Livy is a miniature masterpiece of radiant consciousness, worthy of Thomas Wolfe, Edgar Lee Masters, Thornton Wilder, or Carson McCullers in the annals of lost and holy American place.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005