Definition of Edgar Lee Masters

1. Noun. United States poet (1869-1950).

Exact synonyms: Masters
Generic synonyms: Poet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Edgar Lee Masters

Edenic
Edenization
Edenize
Edenized
Edenizes
Edenizing
Edenlike
Eder-Pustow bougie
Ederle
Edessa
Edgar
Edgar Albert Guest
Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Douglas Adrian
Edgar Guest
Edgar Lee Masters (current term)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Wallace
Edgard Lawrence Doctorow
Edgard Varese
Edge Island
Ediacaran
Edinburgh
Edinger-Westphal nucleus
Edington
Edirne
Edison
Edith
Edith Cavell

Literary usage of Edgar Lee Masters

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"Edgar Lee Masters SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY THE HILL Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, ..."

2. Our Poets of Today by Howard Willard Cook (1918)
"CHAPTER VI Edgar Lee Masters "Spoon River Anthology" is a book possessing ... It brought forward the name of Edgar Lee Masters as a poet of note and bore ..."

3. The New Era in American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1919)
"Edgar Lee Masters WHEN Spoon River Anthology appeared in 1915 (The Macmillan Co. ... And if Edgar Lee Masters had written nothing but this arresting volume, ..."

4. Contemporary American Novelists, 1900-1920 by Carl Van Doren (1922)
"... THE VILLAGE Edgar Lee Masters The newest style in American fiction dates from the appearance, in 1915, of Spoon River Anthology, though it required five ..."

5. High Tide: Songs of Joy and Vision from the Present-day Poets of America and by Gertrude Moore Richards, Waldo Richards (1916)
"... and Good Friday, and Other Poems, John Masefield; Songs and Satires, Edgar Lee Masters; You and I, Harriet Monroe; Songs of the Glens of Antrim, ..."

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