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Definition of Edgar Lee Masters
1. Noun. United States poet (1869-1950).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Edgar Lee Masters
Literary usage of Edgar Lee Masters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"Edgar Lee Masters SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY THE HILL Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert,
Tom and Charley, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, ..."
2. Our Poets of Today by Howard Willard Cook (1918)
"CHAPTER VI Edgar Lee Masters "Spoon River Anthology" is a book possessing ...
It brought forward the name of Edgar Lee Masters as a poet of note and bore ..."
3. The New Era in American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1919)
"Edgar Lee Masters WHEN Spoon River Anthology appeared in 1915 (The Macmillan Co.
... And if Edgar Lee Masters had written nothing but this arresting volume, ..."
4. Contemporary American Novelists, 1900-1920 by Carl Van Doren (1922)
"... THE VILLAGE Edgar Lee Masters The newest style in American fiction dates from
the appearance, in 1915, of Spoon River Anthology, though it required five ..."
5. High Tide: Songs of Joy and Vision from the Present-day Poets of America and by Gertrude Moore Richards, Waldo Richards (1916)
"... and Good Friday, and Other Poems, John Masefield; Songs and Satires, Edgar
Lee Masters; You and I, Harriet Monroe; Songs of the Glens of Antrim, ..."
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