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• catalog abstract ""This is the first book-length biography of Edgar Lee Masters, author of the celebrated Spoon River Anthology, one of the most widely read and discussed volumes of poetry ever written in America." "Herbert K. Russell conveys the internal contradictions that drove Masters throughout his life and kept the happiness, love, security, and success he dreamed of always out of reach. Masters was one of America's most prolific authors, publishing fifty-three books during his lifetime; yet only one of his works afforded him lasting recognition. He was a successful Chicago lawyer, yet he detested the practice of law and always regarded it as an obstacle to his writing. He married twice but constantly pursued other women, seeking an elusive combination of intellectual compatibility, sexual fireworks, and uncritical admiration. After Spoon River Anthology, Masters too often shunned the terse, compact style of the poems that helped revolutionize American poetry, displaying throughout his career an inability to distinguish between trash and treasure in his own work." "The first scholar to be allowed to read and quote from all of Masters's diaries, his correspondence, and the unpublished chapters of his 1936 autobiography Across Spoon River, Russell crafts a nuanced account of the poet's tempestuous relationships, impetuous business decisions, and artistic struggles. The narrative skillfully tempers Masters's own version of events with information left by his two wives, his children, his lovers, and contemporaries such as Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Harriet Monroe, William Jennings Bryan, and Clarence Darrow."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12065486.
• catalog created "c2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "c2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
• catalog description ""A chronological list of Master's books and pamphlets": p. [365]-366.".
• catalog description ""This is the first book-length biography of Edgar Lee Masters, author of the celebrated Spoon River Anthology, one of the most widely read and discussed volumes of poetry ever written in America." "Herbert K. Russell conveys the internal contradictions that drove Masters throughout his life and kept the happiness, love, security, and success he dreamed of always out of reach. Masters was one of America's most prolific authors, publishing fifty-three books during his lifetime; yet only one of his works afforded him lasting recognition. He was a successful Chicago lawyer, yet he detested the practice of law and always regarded it as an obstacle to his writing. He married twice but constantly pursued other women, seeking an elusive combination of intellectual compatibility, sexual fireworks, and uncritical admiration. After Spoon River Anthology, Masters too often shunned the terse, compact style of the poems that helped revolutionize American poetry, displaying throughout his career an inability to distinguish between trash and treasure in his own work." "The first scholar to be allowed to read and quote from all of Masters's diaries, his correspondence, and the unpublished chapters of his 1936 autobiography Across Spoon River, Russell crafts a nuanced account of the poet's tempestuous relationships, impetuous business decisions, and artistic struggles. The narrative skillfully tempers Masters's own version of events with information left by his two wives, his children, his lovers, and contemporaries such as Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Harriet Monroe, William Jennings Bryan, and Clarence Darrow."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-443) and index.".
• catalog description "Road to Spoon River -- A Dark, Poetic Hamlet -- White Stones in a Summer Sun -- When Spoon River Was in Flood -- Reflections on Spoon River -- A Country Place -- The Magic Princess of the Sleeping Palace -- Heart's Desire -- The Judas Kiss -- Satin Apples, Sour Grapes -- Masters at Midcareer -- The Literary Lion and the Roaring Twenties -- Masters Marries Girl! -- Life as an Empty Bucket -- What Abe Lincoln Said -- A Poet in America -- Life at the Chelsea -- A Strip of Faded Carpet and an Old Clipping -- A Lonely Old Man in New York -- Last Chapter.".
• catalog extent "x, 462 p., [16] p. of plates :".
• catalog identifier "0252026160 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "c2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
• catalog subject "811/.52 B 21".
• catalog subject "Authors, American 20th century Biography.".
• catalog subject "Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950.".
• catalog subject "PS3525.A83 Z86 2001".
• catalog tableOfContents "Road to Spoon River -- A Dark, Poetic Hamlet -- White Stones in a Summer Sun -- When Spoon River Was in Flood -- Reflections on Spoon River -- A Country Place -- The Magic Princess of the Sleeping Palace -- Heart's Desire -- The Judas Kiss -- Satin Apples, Sour Grapes -- Masters at Midcareer -- The Literary Lion and the Roaring Twenties -- Masters Marries Girl! -- Life as an Empty Bucket -- What Abe Lincoln Said -- A Poet in America -- Life at the Chelsea -- A Strip of Faded Carpet and an Old Clipping -- A Lonely Old Man in New York -- Last Chapter.".
• catalog title "Edgar Lee Masters : a biography / Herbert K. Russell.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "text".