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Spoon River Anthology

Edgar Lee Masters

Poetryabout 4 h 15 min of listening

A collection of short poems recounting the lives and deaths of the residents of a small Illinois town.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Dedication
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. The Hill
  5. Hod Putt
  6. Ollie McGee
  7. Fletcher McGee
  8. Robert Fulton Tanner
  9. Cassius Hueffer
  10. Serepta Mason
  11. Amanda Barker
  12. Constance Hately
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  1. Chase Henry
  2. Harry Carey Goodhue
  3. Judge Somers
  4. Kinsey Keene
  5. Benjamin Pantier
  6. Mrs. Benjamin Pantier
  7. Reuben Pantier
  8. Emily Sparks
  9. Trainor, the Druggist
  10. Daisy Fraser
  11. Benjamin Fraser
  12. Minerva Jones
  13. “Indignation” Jones
  14. Doctor Meyers
  15. Mrs. Meyers
  16. “Butch” Weldy
  17. Knowlt Hoheimer
  18. Lydia Puckett
  19. Frank Drummer
  20. Hare Drummer
  21. Conrad Siever
  22. Doc Hill
  23. Andy the Night-Watch
  24. Sarah Brown
  25. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  26. Flossie Cabanis
  27. Julia Miller
  28. Johnnie Sayre
  29. Charlie French
  30. Zenas Witt
  31. Theodore the Poet
  32. The Town Marshal
  33. Jack McGuire
  34. Dorcas Gustine
  35. Nicholas Bindle
  36. Jacob Goodpasture
  37. Harold Arnett
  38. Margaret Fuller Slack
  39. George Trimble
  40. Dr. Siegfried Iseman
  41. “Ace” Shaw
  42. Lois Spears
  43. Justice Arnett
  44. Willard Fluke
  45. Aner Clute
  46. Lucius Atherton
  47. Homer Clapp
  48. Deacon Taylor
  49. Sam Hookey
  50. Cooney Potter
  51. Fiddler Jones
  52. Nellie Clark
  53. Louise Smith
  54. Herbert Marshall
  55. George Gray
  56. Hon. Henry Bennett
  57. Griffy the Cooper
  58. Sexsmith the Dentist
  59. A. D. Blood
  60. Robert Southey Burke
  61. Dora Williams
  62. Mrs. Williams
  63. William and Emily
  64. The Circuit Judge
  65. Blind Jack
  66. John Horace Burleson
  67. Nancy Knapp
  68. Barry Holden
  69. State’s Attorney Fallas
  70. Wendell P. Bloyd
  71. Francis Turner
  72. Franklin Jones
  73. John M. Church
  74. Russian Sonia
  75. Isa Nutter
  76. Barney Hainsfeather
  77. Petit, the Poet
  78. Pauline Barrett
  79. Mrs. Charles Bliss
  80. Mrs. George Reece
  81. Rev. Lemuel Wiley
  82. Thomas Ross, Jr.
  83. Rev. Abner Peet
  84. Jefferson Howard
  85. Judge Selah Lively
  86. Albert Schirding
  87. Jonas Keene
  88. Eugenia Todd
  89. Yee Bow
  90. Washington McNeely
  91. Paul McNeely
  92. Mary McNeely
  93. Daniel M’Cumber
  94. Georgine Sand Miner
  95. Thomas Rhodes
  96. Ida Chicken
  97. Penniwit, the Artist
  98. Jim Brown
  99. Robert Davidson
  100. Elsa Wertman
  101. Hamilton Greene
  102. Ernest Hyde
  103. Roger Heston
  104. Amos Sibley
  105. Mrs. Sibley
  106. Adam Weirauch
  107. Ezra Bartlett
  108. Amelia Garrick
  109. John Hancock Otis
  110. Anthony Findlay
  111. John Cabanis
  112. The Unknown
  113. Alexander Throckmorton
  114. Jonathan Swift Somers
  115. Widow McFarlane
  116. Carl Hamblin
  117. Editor Whedon
  118. Eugene Carman
  119. Clarence Fawcett
  120. W. Lloyd Garrison Standard
  121. Professor Newcomer
  122. Ralph Rhodes
  123. Mickey M’Grew
  124. Rosie Roberts
  125. Oscar Hummel
  126. Roscoe Purkapile
  127. Mrs. Purkapile
  128. Josiah Tompkins
  129. Mrs. Kessler
  130. Harmon Whitney
  131. Bert Kessler
  132. Lambert Hutchins
  133. Lillian Stewart
  134. Hortence Robbins
  135. Batterton Dobyns
  136. Jacob Godbey
  137. Walter Simmons
  138. Tom Beatty
  139. Roy Butler
  140. Searcy Foote
  141. Edmund Pollard
  142. Thomas Trebelyan
  143. Percival Sharp
  144. Hiram Scates
  145. Peleg Poague
  146. Jeduthan Hawley
  147. Abel Melveny
  148. Oaks Tutt
  149. Elliott Hawkins
  150. Voltaire Johnson
  151. English Thornton
  152. Enoch Dunlap
  153. Ida Frickey
  154. Seth Compton
  155. Felix Schmidt
  156. Schroeder the Fisherman
  157. Richard Bone
  158. Silas Dement
  159. Dillard Sissman
  160. Jonathan Houghton
  161. E. C. Culbertson
  162. Shack Dye
  163. Hildrup Tubbs
  164. Henry Tripp
  165. Granville Calhoun
  166. Henry C. Calhoun
  167. Alfred Moir
  168. Perry Zoll
  169. Dippold the Optician
  170. Magrady Graham
  171. Archibald Higbie
  172. Tom Merritt
  173. Mrs. Merritt
  174. Elmer Karr
  175. Elizabeth Childers
  176. Edith Conant
  177. Charles Webster
  178. Father Malloy
  179. Ami Green
  180. Calvin Campbell
  181. Henry Layton
  182. Harlan Sewall
  183. Ippolit Konovaloff
  184. Henry Phipps
  185. Harry Wilmans
  186. John Wasson
  187. Many Soldiers
  188. Godwin James
  189. Lyman King
  190. Caroline Branson
  191. Anne Rutledge
  192. Hamlet Micure
  193. Mabel Osborne
  194. William H. Herndon
  195. Rebecca Wasson
  196. Rutherford McDowell
  197. Hannah Armstrong
  198. Lucinda Matlock
  199. Davis Matlock
  200. Herman Altman
  201. Jennie M’Grew
  202. Columbus Cheney
  203. Wallace Ferguson
  204. Marie Bateson
  205. Tennessee Claflin Shope
  206. Plymouth Rock Joe
  207. Imanuel Ehrenhardt
  208. Samuel Gardner
  209. Dow Kritt
  210. William Jones
  211. William Goode
  212. J. Milton Miles
  213. Faith Matheny
  214. Scholfield Hurley
  215. Willie Metcalf
  216. Willie Pennington
  217. The Village Atheist
  218. John Ballard
  219. Julian Scott
  220. Alfonso Churchill
  221. Zilpha Marsh
  222. James Garber
  223. Lydia Humphrey
  224. Le Roy Goldman
  225. Gustav Richter
  226. Arlo Will
  227. Captain Orlando Killion
  228. Jeremy Carlisle
  229. Joseph Dixon
  230. Judson Stoddard
  231. Russell Kincaid
  232. Aaron Hatfield
  233. Isaiah Beethoven
  234. Elijah Browning
  235. Webster Ford
  236. The Spooniad
  237. Epilogue
  238. Endnotes
  239. Colophon
  240. Uncopyright

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