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The spoon river anthology6/2/2023 Listen to a dramatic reading of “Lucinda Matlock” in this vintage recording of the Spoon River Anthology, performed by Betty Garrett and Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn the original Broadway cast.ĭid you enjoy Lucinda Matlock? You may read more Spoon River Anthology excerpts here. You will read a bit of Spoon River Anthology in Excellence in Literature English 3 American Literature Module 3.7. What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, Shouting to the wooded hills, singing to the green valleys.Īt ninety-six I had lived enough, that is all, Rambled over the fields where sang the larks,Īnd by Spoon River gathering many a shell, We were married and lived together for seventy years,Įnjoying, working, raising the twelve children, “Lucinda Matlock” from Spoon River Anthology, a 1916 collection of short free verse poems that narrates the epitaphs of the residents of the fictional small town, Spoon River, which was named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters’ home town in Illinois.ĭriving home in the moonlight of middle June, Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology published in 1915 is a collection of more than two hundred poems, written in the form of post-mortem autobiographical epitaphs of ordinary residents. EIL 4.3 Spenser, Gawain, and Arthurian Context.
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