Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

One of the most striking and original achievements in American poetry is now available in a remarkable edition that comprehends the poet and his book in an entirely new way. This edition of Spoon River Anthology probes the social background of the smalltown world that Edgar Lee Masters loved and hated--and finally transmuted into powerful literary art. Extensive annotations identify the people whose lives inspired the 243 poetic accounts of frustration,...

"A source book of Roman inscriptions which reveal, not only the daily lives of the average Roman, but the way scholars infer the facts of Roman civilization from non-literary records. Four courses in Roman civilization at all levels. This edition, published by Hackett Publishing Co. under the Focus imprint corrects many errors in the original"--