Spoon River Anthology PDF Edgar Lee Masters

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And while today Masters is no longer considered Whitman’s literary equal, he is in fact just as important as a literary innovator. Whereas Whitman, in the words of Ezra Pound, “broke the new wood” of poetry by writing about the miracle of the common in free verse, Masters opened up the naturalistic tradition in American literature. Indeed, it is Masters instead of Sherwood Anderson who was the first American writer to introduce psychological naturalism. In the earlier form of naturalism, adversity comes from external forces such as poverty, crime, or sickness, whereas in psychological naturalism the enemy is as much within as without, indeed more so.

As the village or small town began to reappear in American literature, whether as Spoon River or Winesburg, it was no longer viewed as a refuge from the brute external forces found in the city. The voices that speak in Spoon River Anthology describe themselves as victims of their ow

• Book Name: Spoon River Anthology pdf
• Author Name Edgar Lee Masters
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 2010

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