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Edgar Lee Masters

Born

in Garnett, KS, The United States

August 23, 1868

Died

March 05, 1950

Genre

Poetry

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Edgar Lee Masters (Garnett, Kansas, August 23, 1868 - Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1950) was an American poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems. In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman.

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Edgar Lee Masters’s books

Average rating: 4.03 · 13,938 ratings · 1,178 reviews · 138 distinct works • Similar authors

	Spoon River Anthology 4.04 avg rating — 13,649 ratings — published 1915 — 623 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il nuovo Spoon River: Testo inglese a fronte 3.89 avg rating — 119 ratings — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Across Spoon River 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lincoln: The Man 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1931 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sangamon (Prairie State Books) (Rivers of America, #16) by Edgar Lee Masters, Lynd Ward (Ilustratator) 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1942 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Domesday Book 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2004 — 111 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Songs and Satires 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1999 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Children of the Market Place 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1922 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems; really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1972	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mitch Miller by Edgar Lee Masters, John French Sloan (Illustrator) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1920 — 85 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Edgar Lee Masters (?)

“To this generation I would say:
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.”
― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

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“To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture
Of restlessness and vague desire--
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.”
― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

tags: inspirational, life, meaning

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“The tongue may be an unruly member--
But silence poisons the soul.”
― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

tags: dorcas-gustine, spoon-river

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May 2025 - Short Story/Novella Poll

The Machine Stops E.M. Forster

22 votes, 20.0%

The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens

19 votes, 17.3%

Stancliffe's Hotel by Charlotte Brontë

18 votes, 16.4%

The Lottery in Babylon by Jorge Luis Borges found in The Garden of Forking Paths

15 votes, 13.6%

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

12 votes, 10.9%

Silent Snow, Secret Snow by Conrad Aiken

7 votes, 6.4%

The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson

6 votes, 5.5%

A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce

6 votes, 5.5%

Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

5 votes, 4.5%

Michael Kohlhaas: A Tale from an Old Chronicle by Heinrich von Kleist

0 votes, 0.0%

110 total votes

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