Edgar Lee Masters

Une rumeur gronde depuis les tombes du cimetière de Spoon River. C’est la voix des morts. Depuis l’au-delà, les habitants ensevelis retracent dans des mots taillés à la serpe la cause de leur décès.Règlement de comptes et autres aveux dépeignent une véritable fresque sociale. De la femme trompée au juge déwchu, le ressentiment se répand comme une traînée de poudre. Entre ses allées, le calme n’est qu’apparent, la rancoeur n’aura de cesse de perturber un repos éternel. Chef d’orchestre de ces voix, Edgar Lee Masters signe là un roman extrêmement original au ton férocement satirique, qui repose sur une mise en perspective des monologues au moyen d’échos et d’allusions croisées. Mais ce n’est pas tout : il compose du même coup de véritables poèmes en vers libres, qui tiennent de l’épigramme et prennent le contre-pied de l’éloge funèbre. Passions et rancoeurs animent ce microcosme, allégorie de toute l’Amérique, loin de tout cliché bucolique. Foudroyant.

DIVAn American poetry classic, in which former citizens of a mythical midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dreams of their lives. /div

From Main Street to Stranger Things, how poetry changed our idea of small town life A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in 1915, Spoon River Anthology won praise from modernists while becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy charts the ways readers embraced, debated, and reshaped Masters's work in literary controversies and culture war skirmishes; in films and other media that over time saw the small town as idyllic then conflicted then surreal; and as the source of three archetypes—populist, elite, and exile—that endure across the landscape of American culture in the twenty-first century. A wide-ranging reconsideration of a literary landmark, Spoon River America tells the story of how a Midwesterner's poetry helped change a nation's conception of itself.

The memoirs of one of Illinois’ great poets, author of Spoon River Anthology, with many vignettes of the Chicago Renaissance. This intimate and provocative autobiography, first published in 1936, reveals the innermost thoughts of a great American poet. Edgar Lee Masters was a transitional figure in American literature with one foot planted in the nineteenth century and the other firmly placed on the path of what we now think of as the modern period. Richly illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. “Across Spoon River: An Autobiography is blunt and cranky about a life [Masters] saw as largely “scrappy and unmanageable.” Emphasizing life on his grandfather’s farm, his school days, his political battles, the workday world, and the growth of a poet’s mind through wide reading, the book is a valuable record of Masters’s work habits and offers considerable insight on his position as a critic and his place in American literature.”—Ronald Primeau, American National Biography

Drawn from all of Edgar Lee Masters's diaries correspondence, and the unpublished chapters of his 1936 autobiography, this is the first full-length biography of the celebrated author of "Spoon River Anthology", one of the most widely read and discussed volumes of poetry ever written in America. 25 photos.

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