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United States. Spoon River Anthology (1915) is a collection of short free verse poems by Edgar Lee Masters. The poems collectively narrate the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the Spoon River, which ran near Masters's home town of Lewistown, Illinois. The aim of the poems is to demystify rural and ...
The novel describes the trial of Mary Cresap, a US Department of Public Health nurse who attempts to supply the poor with free tuberculosis vaccinations during the Depression. What makes The Voices of Glory stand out is its narrative style -- Grubb allows the "voices" of twenty-eight individuals, living and dead, touched by Cresap's life to ...
Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868 – March 5, 1950) was an American attorney, 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.
Unspecified voice (high and low versions), piano 1905–12 1913 [21] [26] "A Song of Vermland" Unaccompanied chorus 1903–04 1904 Other version in La Scandinavie [21] [26] "Spoon River" AFMS 1, 3 (a) Solo piano (b) Elastic scoring (c) Two pianos, four hands 1919–33 1922 1930 1932 [4] [23] "The Sprig of Thyme" BFMS 24
The novel has been compared with Edgar Lee Masters's poetry collection Spoon River Anthology, published in 1915. [36] [22] [37] Tim Martin, writing for Literary Review, compared its "babble of American voices", some from primary sources and some expertly fabricated, with the last act of Thornton Wilder's play Our Town. [38]
Dave Etter. David Pearson Etter (March 18, 1928 – July 10, 2015) was an American poet. He was known for poems evoking small-town midwestern life. His most famous volume was written as 222 monologues in the voices of citizens of the imaginary community of “Alliance, Illinois,” [1] [2] which was based in part on his experiences living for ...
Charles Andre Martinet [3] was born on September 17, 1955, [4] in San Jose or Cupertino, California [1]: 337 to father Jacques René Pierre Martinet. [5] The younger of two children, he has an older brother, John, though he was taller than him despite being the younger sibling, and while his brother was extroverted, Charles was shy and more anxiety-driven than him in his youth.
Fernanda Pivano. Fernanda Pivano in 2006. Fernanda Pivano with husband Ettore Sottsass at their home in Milan, 1969. Fernanda Pivano (18 July 1917 – 18 August 2009) was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and critic.