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The Great Valley

by Edgar Lee Masters

★3.0/5
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About This Book

This 1916 gathering of verse follows Masters's landmark volume, "Spoon River Anthology." Poems include "Fort Dearborn," "Captain John Whistler," "Lincoln and Douglas Debates," "The Typical American?," "Come, Republic," "Achilles Deatheridge," "To a Spirochaeta," "My Dog Ponto," "The Gospel of Mark, "Theodore Dreiser," "Monsieur D-- to the Psychoanalyst," and many others.

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