Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    The Great Valley (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
    Unavailable
    The Great Valley (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
    Unavailable
    The Great Valley (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
    Ebook293 pages2 hours

    The Great Valley (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

    By Edgar Lee Masters

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    This 1916 gathering of verse follows Masters’s landmark volume, Spoon River Anthology. Poems include “Fort Dearborn,” “Captain John Whistler,” “Lincoln and Douglas Debates,” “The Typical American?”, “Come, Republic,” “Achilles Deatheridge,” “To a Spirochaeta,” “My Dog Ponto,” “The Gospel of Mark, “Theodore Dreiser,” “Monsieur D— to the Psychoanalyst,” and many others.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateApr 19, 2011
    ISBN9781411448926
    Unavailable
    The Great Valley (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
    Author

    Edgar Lee Masters

    Edgar LeeMasters (1868–1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. Born in Garnett, Kansas to attorney Hardin Wallace Masters and Emma Jerusha Dexter, they later moved to Lewistown, Illinois, where Masters attended high school and had his first publication in the Chicago Daily News. After working in his father’s law office, he was admitted to the Illinois State Bar and moved to Chicago. In 1898 he married Helen M. Jenkins and had three children. Masters died on March 5, 1950, in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, at the age of eighty-one. He is buried in Oakland Cemetery in Petersburg, Illinois.

    Read more from Edgar Lee Masters

    Related to The Great Valley (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

    Related ebooks

    Poetry For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      A Watery Graveyard Revisited

      Apr 27, 2023

      A Watery Graveyard Revisited
      2 min read

    • Article

      Commonplace Book

      Jun 1, 2022

      Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June’s long days, and wild strawberries, drops of rosé wine. The nettles that methodically overgrow the abandoned homesteads of exiles. —Adam Zagajewski, “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” tr. by Clare C

      4 min read

    • Article

      In search Of kindness

      Apr 21, 2020

      In search Of kindness
      12 min read

    • Article

      OFF THE Mangrove Coast

      Feb 22, 2019

      OFF THE Mangrove Coast
      4 min read

    • Article

      Hook, Line And Sinker

      Oct 18, 2018

      Hook, Line And Sinker
      4 min read

    • Article

      Following The Flow

      Aug 31, 2019

      Following The Flow
      11 min read

    • Article

      Stop Hating on Adjectives!

      Jun 12, 2019

      A common admonition in creative writing pedagogy is, “Cut as many adjectives as possible.” I propose that this rule springs from mere prejudice. The post Stop Hating on Adjectives! appeared first on The Millions.

      7 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Sep 4, 2018

      In London. England. Who knows why?Perhaps this rumpled guyFrom central casting or a page of Dickens.He’s taking ordinary usTo haunts of the illustrious,Where even dull pulse quickens. A red felt hat’s dark fingered brim,Food-spotted vest are—him.A mo

      4 min read

    • Article

      Parting the Waters

      Dec 29, 2022

      Parting the Waters
      12 min read

    • Article

      Native Nevada

      Jun 6, 2023

      Native Nevada
      7 min read

    • Article

      Commonplace Book

      Jun 4, 2018

      I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. —Fred Allen I have always wondered, in reading travels, at the childish joy travellers felt at meeting people they knew, and their sense of loneliness when they did not, in

      4 min read

    • Article

      A Symposium on Deserts

      Mar 1, 2019

      A Symposium on Deserts
      24 min read

    • Article

      Two-wheeling To Freedom

      Mar 5, 2019

      Two-wheeling To Freedom
      9 min read

    • Article

      River Kismet

      Jul 21, 2020

      River Kismet
      9 min read

    • Article

      Until The Sea Closed Over Us And The Light Was Gone

      Jul 1, 2020

      —Dante, Canto XXVI But if the truth is dreamed of toward the morning—El Paso Although it was really last summer’s song,all this summer Despacito played on as slower then I turned myself to gazeupon Juarez. The summer everything hurts my eyes, a dozen

      6 min read

    • Article

      It’s The Taking Part

      Sep 10, 2021

      You’d think that with the year’s favourite virus stamping on any attempts to have fun, this summer would have been a thin one for regattas and festivals. Certainly, some events have been struck off, but the efforts of a number of committees to delive

      5 min read

    • Article

      Lights, Camera, Corsicana

      Nov 26, 2020

      Lights, Camera, Corsicana
      10 min read

    • Article

      Tessa Castro

      Mar 9, 2022

      IN COMPETITION No 277 you were invited to write a poem called Morning Sounds. The entries were vivid: half domestic, half outdoor. Tim Lloyd observed that ‘A bin lorry approaching in reverse/Sounds like an asthmatic seal.’ Liz Piper remembered, durin

      2 min read

    • Article

      Gringo Honeymoon

      May 17, 2021

      Gringo Honeymoon
      5 min read

    • Article

      Gringo Honeymoon

      May 17, 2021

      Gringo Honeymoon
      5 min read

    • Article

      Otherworldly

      Jan 7, 2020

      Otherworldly
      4 min read

    Reviews for The Great Valley (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words