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Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868, Garnett, Kansas — March 5, 1950, Melrose Park, Pennsylvania) was an American poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems. In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman.
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Masters first published his early poems and essays under the pseudonym Dexter Wallace (after his mother's maiden name and his father's middle name) until the year 1903, when he joined the law firm of Clarence Darrow.
Masters began developing as a notable American poet in 1914 , when he began a series of poems (this time under the pseudonym Webster Ford) about his childhood experiences in Western Illinois, which appeared in Reedy's Mirror, a St. Louis publication. In 1915 the series was bound into a volume and re-titled Spoon River Anthology. Years later, he wrote a memorable and invaluable account of the book’s background and genesis, his working methods and influences, as well as its reception by the critics, favorable and hostile, in an autobiographical article notable for its human warmth and general interest. [4]
Though he never matched the success of his Spoon River Anthology, Masters was a prolific writer of diverse works. He published several other volumes of poems including Book of Verses in 1898, Songs and Sonnets in 1910, The Great Valley in 1916, Song and Satires in 1916, The Open Sea in 1921, The New Spoon River in 1924, Lee in 1926, Jack Kelso in 1928, Lichee Nuts in 1930, Gettysburg, Manila, Acoma in 1930, Godbey, sequel to Jack Kelso in 1931, The Serpent in the Wilderness in 1933, Richmond in 1934, Invisible Landscapes in 1935, The Golden Fleece of California in 1936, Poems of People in 1936, The New World in 1937, More People in 1939, Illinois Poems in 1941, and Along the Illinois in 1942.
Masters was awarded the Mark Twain Silver Medal in 1936, the Poetry Society of America medal in 1941, the Academy of American Poets Fellowship in 1942, and the Shelly Memorial Award in 1944.
I WENT to the dances at Chandlerville,
And played snap-out at Winchester.
One time we changed partners,
Driving home in the moonlight of middle June,
And then I found Davis.
We were married and lived together for seventy years,
Enjoying, working, raising the twelve children,
Eight of whom we lost
Ere I had reached the age of sixty.
I spun,
I wove,
I kept the house,
I nursed the sick,
I made the garden, and for holiday
Rambled over the fields where sang the larks,
And by Spoon River gathering many a shell,
And many a flower and medicinal weed--
Shouting to the wooded hills, singing to the green valleys.
At ninety--six I had lived enough, that is all,
And passed to a sweet repose.
What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness,
Anger, discontent and drooping hopes?
Degenerate sons and daughters,
Life is too strong for you--
It takes life to love Life.
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For some reason, I keep thinking that face is a Pokemon.
Holy crap, that is awesome.
edit: My favorite Youtube comment:
Stealing from other posters angers me.
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If you're going to trust someone nilly willy in phalla, you can trust me. I'm Never Evil. ^_^
WHAT
Everyone's been going *flips table* or encouraging me to flip tables for months. I am the first and best table flipper.
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Think what life would be like if a boob monster from another dimension entered our universe through a space-time portal boob-first and her boobs very quickly occupied every free space in our own universe, eventually crushing and suffocating all matter and life until we cease to exist.
That's pretty much what the Minxy Elvira thing is all about.
im so confused
It's your penis, and yes, that's normal.
Elvira did a response to it. Her word of the day? Boobs.
Yeah, you covered basically all the details there.
Pray that you are the first to be smothered.
Minxy is a girl who apparently became super web-famous for dressing in low-cut tops, talking about weeaboo stuff on Youtube, playing with her stuffed animals, doing annoying lessons in Japanese, and having planet-sized boobs. She also cosplayed as Elvira.
And then Cassandra Peterson (aka the actual Elvira) cosplayed as Minxy in a video response on Youtube.
Which is pretty awesome, IMO.
this is blooowing my miiiind maaaan
she cosplayed as her then she cosplayed as her because she cosplayed as her!?!?
Also Elvira :^:
Weaboo girl :v:
Oh god, it really is the best thing.
i didn't realize what that was.
and then i spit beer out all over my keyboard.
Actually, one of my favorite animes is Gunslinger Girl, which is like gun nut pron.
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OMG.
I didn't see it either.
It was really good I wasn't drinking something at the time, or I would have had a hard time explaining to my boss why 2 keyboards, a Kalatel, and 3 monitors had coffee all over them.
so I see you really took to Buffy, huh
Total Robyn reference
almost.
You cannot unsee what has been seen. It will haunt your dreams till the end of the earth.
Hey
Hey now.
That's a bit close to my thing.
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I would do Alcide or Lafayette. Both are awesome.
edit:fixed a name