This 1919 collection of more than 40 poems includes "Creation," "Tyrannosaurus: or Burning Letters," "Lord Byron to Doctor Polidori," "A Woman of Forty," "William Shakespeare," "By the Waters of Babylon," "The Christian Statesman," "Winged Victory," "Oh You Sabbatarians!", "Pallas Athene," "Chicago," and "Inexorable Deities."

Named after the author's best friend from childhood, Masters's first (1920) novel is a charming tale of two boys growing up in the Mississippi River Valley in 1900. Mitch sets out to relive Tom Sawyer in what one critic called the best boy's story of the generation.

This 1916 gathering of verse follows Masters's landmark volume, Spoon River Anthology. Poems include "Fort Dearborn," "Captain John Whistler," "Lincoln and Douglas Debates," "The Typical American?", "Come, Republic," "Achilles Deatheridge," "To a Spirochaeta," "My Dog Ponto," "The Gospel of Mark, "Theodore Dreiser," "Monsieur D-to the Psychoanalyst," and many others.

One of the most striking and original achievements in American poetry is now available in a remarkable edition that comprehends the poet and his book in an entirely new way. This edition of Spoon River Anthology probes the social background of the smalltown world that Edgar Lee Masters loved and hated--and finally transmuted into powerful literary art. Extensive annotations identify the people whose lives inspired the 243 poetic accounts of frustration,...