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A critical and financial success from its first publication, Spoon River Anthology is a truly original work of American literature, the likes of which there has not been before or since. 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A collection of poems from the graveyard of a rural Illinois town, \u003ci\u003eSpoon River Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e poignantly captures the politics, love, betrayals, alliances, hopes, and failures of this small American town. Here is the respected doctor, jailed for swindling; here is the chaste wife, rapt with desire; here is the pastor, angry and resentful; here is the quiet man, filled with unrequited love and devotion. Beneath the midwestern values of honesty, community, family, hard work, and chastity, \u003ci\u003eSpoon River Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the disillusionment and corruption in modern life. \u003cbr\u003e With the publication of \u003ci\u003eSpoon River Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e Masters exploded the powerful myth that small-town America was a social utopia. Here for the first time was a community that people recognized in its wholeness and complexity. 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Extensive annotations identify the people whose lives inspired the 243 poetic accounts of frustration, violence, struggle, and triumph that shocked American readers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe most extraordinary feature of this edition is the extensive introduction that provides the key to this misunderstood American classic. The book's relationship to Whitman is clearly established, and the important influences of Browning, Goethe, Spinoza, and others are revealed for the first time. John Hallwas' approach combines cultural, biographical, philosophical, psychoanalytic, mythic, and symbolic insights--and concludes with a stunning reassessment of \"Our New Poet.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe annotated \u003ci\u003eSpoon River Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e supersedes seventy-five years of largely misdirected critical commentary. 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