From Main Street to Stranger Things, how poetry changed our idea of
small town life A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River
Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a
bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the
book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as
the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in
1915, Spoon River Anthology won praise from modernists while
becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy
charts the ways readers embraced, debated, and reshaped Masters's
work in literary controversies and culture war skirmishes; in films
and other media that over time saw the small town as idyllic then
conflicted then surreal; and as the source of three
archetypes—populist, elite, and exile—that endure across the
landscape of American culture in the twenty-first century. A
wide-ranging reconsideration of a literary landmark, Spoon River
America tells the story of how a Midwesterner's poetry helped
change a nation's conception of itself.
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