Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters (1868 - 1950)

English, Literature, 1 season, 246 episodes, 6 hours, 10 minutes

Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters (1868 - 1950)

English, Literature, 1 season, 246 episodes, 6 hours, 10 minutes

About

This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, gossiping about their neighbors' lives. It's interesting to hear how other people perceive a particular character, and how that character responds.

Many Soldiers

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 31 seconds

Mrs. Benjamin Pantier

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 27 seconds

Harry Carey Goodhue

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 20 seconds

Lydia Humphrey

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 3 seconds

Barry Holden

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 25 seconds

Village Atheist, The

1/1/1 • 57 seconds

Zenas Witt

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 16 seconds

Eugene Carman

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 37 seconds

Jim Brown

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 36 seconds

William Goode

1/1/1 • 58 seconds

Barney Hainsfeather

1/1/1 • 49 seconds

Godwin James

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 54 seconds

Mrs. Purkapile

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 8 seconds

Maria Bateson

1/1/1 • 57 seconds

Archibald Higbie

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 29 seconds

Louise Smith

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 16 seconds

Sam Hookey

1/1/1 • 52 seconds

Wendell P. Bloyd

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 41 seconds

Hill, The

1/1/1 • 2 minutes, 53 seconds

Lyman King

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 2 seconds

Rutherford McDowell

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 42 seconds

Plymouth Rock Joe

1/1/1 • 2 minutes, 11 seconds

Indignation Jones

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 47 seconds

Abel Melveny

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 21 seconds

John Horace Burleson

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 11 seconds

Hamilton Greene

1/1/1 • 49 seconds

Aner Clute

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 14 seconds

Hon. Henry Bennett

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 5 seconds

Dora Williams

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 53 seconds

Daniel M'Cumber

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 17 seconds

Cassius Hueffer

1/1/1 • 56 seconds

Robert Davidson

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 29 seconds

Arlo Will

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 26 seconds

Dow Kritt

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 8 seconds

Seth Compton

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 17 seconds

Ace Shaw

1/1/1 • 54 seconds

Elizabeth Childers

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 38 seconds

Tom Beatty

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 24 seconds

Caroline Branson

1/1/1 • 3 minutes, 3 seconds

Columbus Cheney

1/1/1 • 54 seconds

John Cabanis

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 20 seconds

Samuel Gardner

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 35 seconds

Trainor, the Druggist

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 32 seconds

Jonathan Swift Somers (Author of the Spooniad)

1/1/1 • 55 seconds

Aaron Hatfield

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 36 seconds

Faith Matheny

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 17 seconds

Isaiah Beethoven

1/1/1 • 2 minutes, 4 seconds

Sexsmith the Dentist

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 27 seconds

Nellie Clark

1/1/1 • 54 seconds

Roy Butler

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 43 seconds

Jack McGuire

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 15 seconds

Mrs. Charles Bliss

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 41 seconds

Russian Sonia

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 37 seconds

Rosie Roberts

1/1/1 • 51 seconds

John M. Church

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 11 seconds

Oaks Tutt

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 49 seconds

Harry Wilmans

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 27 seconds

Minerva Jones

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 39 seconds

Franklin Jones

1/1/1 • 54 seconds

Daisy Fraser

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 13 seconds

Gustav Richter

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 56 seconds

Hare Drummer

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 53 seconds

Robert Fulton Tanner

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 30 seconds

John Hancock Otis

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 16 seconds

Butch Weldy

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 20 seconds

Scholfield Huxley

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 43 seconds

Fiddler Jones

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 7 seconds

Percival Sharp

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 44 seconds

Conrad Siever

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 1 second

Nancy Knapp

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 19 seconds

Andy the Night-Watch

1/1/1 • 58 seconds

Walter Simmons

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 17 seconds

Tennessee Claflin Shope

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 7 seconds

Alfred Moir

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 6 seconds

Amelia Garrick

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 24 seconds

English Thornton

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 33 seconds

Jonas Keene

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 1 second

Fletcher McGee

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 32 seconds

Anne Rutledge

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 1 second

Henry Tripp

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 43 seconds

Lucius Atherton

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 14 seconds

Serepta Mason

1/1/1 • 53 seconds

Blind Jack

1/1/1 • 1 minute

William Jones

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 19 seconds

Yee Bow

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 16 seconds

Bert Kessler

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 11 seconds

Mrs. Williams

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 4 seconds

Searcy Foote

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 41 seconds

Lambert Hutchins

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 50 seconds

Charlie French

1/1/1 • 57 seconds

Circuit Judge, The

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 3 seconds

Ezra Bartlett

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 4 seconds

Elmer Karr

1/1/1 • 50 seconds

Ralph Rhodes

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 21 seconds

Enoch Dunlap

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 12 seconds

Russell Kincaid

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 29 seconds

Washington McNeely

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 52 seconds

Judson Stoddard

1/1/1 • 54 seconds

Thomas Trevelyan

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 38 seconds

Julia Miller

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 15 seconds

Chase Henry

1/1/1 • 50 seconds

Felix Schmidt

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 32 seconds

Emily Sparks

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 31 seconds

Jeduthan Hawley

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 26 seconds

Lillian Stewart

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 28 seconds

Isa Nutter

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 26 seconds

Granville Calhoun

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 16 seconds

W. Lloyd Garrison Standard

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 58 seconds

Father Malloy

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 33 seconds

Georgine Sand Miner

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 38 seconds

James Garber

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 51 seconds

State's Attorney Fallas

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 5 seconds

A. D. Blood

1/1/1 • 47 seconds

Hamlet Micure

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 43 seconds

Voltaire Johnson

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 8 seconds

Petit, the Poet

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 7 seconds

Jefferson Howard

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 27 seconds

Richard Bone

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 24 seconds

Alexander Throckmorton

1/1/1 • 34 seconds

Roger Heston

1/1/1 • 1 minute

Schroeder the Fisherman

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 22 seconds

Dillard Sissman

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 36 seconds

Rev. Lemuel Wiley

1/1/1 • 46 seconds

Herman Altman

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 10 seconds

Justice Arnett

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 23 seconds

Flossie Cabanis

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 16 seconds

Willard Fluke

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 45 seconds

Albert Schirding

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 22 seconds

Town Marshal, The

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 4 seconds

Le Roy Goldman

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 13 seconds

Jacob Goodpasture

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 26 seconds

Mabel Osborne

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 31 seconds

Johnnie Sayre

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 10 seconds

Hortense Robbins

1/1/1 • 57 seconds

Mrs. Sibley

1/1/1 • 46 seconds

Penniwit, the Artist

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 11 seconds

Jonathan Houghton

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 39 seconds

George Gray

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 5 seconds

Spooniad, The

1/1/1 • 17 minutes, 13 seconds

William and Emily

1/1/1 • 58 seconds

Dorcas Gustine

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 12 seconds

Unknown, The

1/1/1 • 52 seconds

Edith Conant

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 32 seconds

Reuben Pantier

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 50 seconds

Henry Phipps

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 51 seconds

Perry Zoll

1/1/1 • 59 seconds

Dr. Siegfried Iseman

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 4 seconds

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1/1/1 • 51 seconds

Doc Hill

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 8 seconds

Mrs. Meyers

1/1/1 • 50 seconds

Robert Southey

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 52 seconds

Amos Sibley

1/1/1 • 53 seconds

Judge Selah Lively

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 25 seconds

Magrady Graham

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 32 seconds

Dippold the Optician

1/1/1 • 2 minutes, 13 seconds

Ernest Hyde

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 10 seconds

Ollie McGee

1/1/1 • 1 minute

Paul McNeely

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 25 seconds

Jennie M'Grew

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 13 seconds

Jacob Godbey

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 20 seconds

Cooney Potter

1/1/1 • 56 seconds

Nicholas Bindle

1/1/1 • 54 seconds

Benjamin Fraser

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 24 seconds

Edmund Pollard

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 36 seconds

Rebecca Wasson

1/1/1 • 2 minutes, 27 seconds

Herbert Marshall

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 3 seconds

Thomas Ross, Jr.

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 9 seconds

Mrs. Kessler

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 38 seconds

Kinsey Keene

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 17 seconds

Charles Webster

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 55 seconds

Widow McFarlane

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 21 seconds

Calvin Campbell

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 9 seconds

Epilogue, The

1/1/1 • 27 minutes, 47 seconds

Homer Clapp

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 26 seconds

Griffy the Cooper

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 1 second

Margaret Fuller Slack

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 27 seconds

Ida Frickey

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 33 seconds

Mrs. Merritt

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 9 seconds

Henry Layton

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 10 seconds

Wallace Ferguson

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 33 seconds

John Wasson

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 34 seconds

Mickey M'Grew

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 9 seconds

Constance Hately

1/1/1 • 46 seconds

Professor Newcomer

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 2 seconds

Deacon Taylor

1/1/1 • 34 seconds

Peleg Poague

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 9 seconds

Webster Ford

1/1/1 • 2 minutes, 16 seconds

Captain Orlando Killion

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 19 seconds

Zilpha Marsh

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 50 seconds

Anthony Findlay

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 12 seconds

Elijah Browning

1/1/1 • 2 minutes, 28 seconds

Hildrup Tubbs

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 24 seconds

Amanda Barker

1/1/1 • 54 seconds

Lucinda Matlock

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 20 seconds

William H. Herndon

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 44 seconds

Rev. Abner Peet

1/1/1 • 46 seconds

Doctor Meyers

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 25 seconds

Ami Green

1/1/1 • 48 seconds

Sarah Brown

1/1/1 • 53 seconds

Hiram Scates

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 36 seconds

Davis Matlock

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 13 seconds

Roscoe Purkapile

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 30 seconds

Pauline Barrett

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 50 seconds

Ippolit Konovaloff

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 28 seconds

Frank Drummer

1/1/1 • 55 seconds

Editor Whedon

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 29 seconds

John Ballard

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 25 seconds

Harlan Sewall

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 16 seconds

Harold Arnett

1/1/1 • 2 minutes, 2 seconds

Alfonso Churchill

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 2 seconds

Henry C. Calhoun

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 31 seconds

E. C. Culbertson

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 24 seconds

Knowlt Hoheimer

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 31 seconds

Julian Scott

1/1/1 • 59 seconds

Tom Merritt

1/1/1 • 49 seconds

Jeremy Carlisle

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 29 seconds

Ida Chicken

1/1/1 • 58 seconds

Shack Dye

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 22 seconds

Joseph Dixon

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 30 seconds

Theodore the Poet

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 21 seconds

Judge Somers

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 5 seconds

Silas Dement

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 14 seconds

Clarence Fawcett

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 5 seconds

Mrs. George Reece

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 3 seconds

J. Milton Miles

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 11 seconds

Josiah Tompkins

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 24 seconds

Hannah Armstrong

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 46 seconds

Lydia Puckett

1/1/1 • 33 seconds

Harmon Whitney

1/1/1 • 2 minutes

Carl Hamblin

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 45 seconds

Thomas Rhodes

1/1/1 • 54 seconds

Elsa Wertman

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 43 seconds

Hod Putt

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 9 seconds

Batterton Dobyns

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 3 seconds

Eugenia Todd

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 24 seconds

Lois Spears

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 16 seconds

Benjamin Pantier

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 10 seconds

Mary McNeely

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 9 seconds

Francis Turner

1/1/1 • 53 seconds

Oscar Hummel

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 19 seconds

Adam Weirauch

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 27 seconds

Willie Pennington

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 15 seconds

George Trimble

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 2 seconds

Elliott Hawkins

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 45 seconds

Willie Metcalf

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 29 seconds

Imanuel Ehrenhardt

1/1/1 • 1 minute, 7 seconds

About

Season null

Many Soldiers

Mrs. Benjamin Pantier

Harry Carey Goodhue

Lydia Humphrey

Barry Holden

Village Atheist, The

Zenas Witt

Eugene Carman

Jim Brown

William Goode

Barney Hainsfeather

Godwin James

Mrs. Purkapile

Maria Bateson

Archibald Higbie

Louise Smith

Sam Hookey

Wendell P. Bloyd

Hill, The

Lyman King

Rutherford McDowell

Plymouth Rock Joe

Indignation Jones

Abel Melveny

John Horace Burleson

Hamilton Greene

Aner Clute

Hon. Henry Bennett

Dora Williams

Daniel M'Cumber

Cassius Hueffer

Robert Davidson

Arlo Will

Dow Kritt

Seth Compton

Ace Shaw

Elizabeth Childers

Tom Beatty

Caroline Branson

Columbus Cheney

John Cabanis

Samuel Gardner

Trainor, the Druggist

Jonathan Swift Somers (Author of the Spooniad)

Aaron Hatfield

Faith Matheny

Isaiah Beethoven

Sexsmith the Dentist

Nellie Clark

Roy Butler

Jack McGuire

Mrs. Charles Bliss

Russian Sonia

Rosie Roberts

John M. Church

Oaks Tutt

Harry Wilmans

Minerva Jones

Franklin Jones

Daisy Fraser

Gustav Richter

Hare Drummer

Robert Fulton Tanner

John Hancock Otis

Butch Weldy

Scholfield Huxley

Fiddler Jones

Percival Sharp

Conrad Siever

Nancy Knapp

Andy the Night-Watch

Walter Simmons

Tennessee Claflin Shope

Alfred Moir

Amelia Garrick

English Thornton

Jonas Keene

Fletcher McGee