Your eight-page paper—behind which you huddle, Bawling through the megaphone of big type: ‘This is I, the giant.’
Edgar Lee Masters Quotes
If he could describe it at all, he would be an artist. But if he were an artist, there would be deeper wounds, which he could not describe.
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| Birth: | 23rd August, 1868 |
| Death: | 5th March, 1950 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Biographer, Lawyer, Poet |
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Edgar Lee Masters 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.
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