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It situates the work within early twentieth-century American poetry’s retreat into imitation, then explains how the anthology’s grim, concrete epitaph monologues shocked a complacent reading public. 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Teachers College,Muncie,Indiana  \nLibrary of Congress Catalog Card Number:63-17878  \nC.2  \n900  \nWhen Benjamin De Casseres wrote of Spoon River Anthology,\"I do notknow of any poetic fiction that gives me such an odor of reality,such araw,rank taste of broken hearts and battered brains,such a sense of inex-orable fatality,\"1 he caught much of the essence of Edgar Lee Masters'mostfamous book,and he also suggested some of the factors which made SpoonRiver Anthology so startling at the time of its publication.  \nAt the beginning of the second decade of the twentieth century,Americanpoetry was characterized by a weak and imitative Victorianism.²Americanpoets echoed Tennyson,Swinburne,Dobson,and others,but their imitationsdid not rise to the level of their models.Although William Vaughn Moodyand Edwin Arlington Robinson were writing some excellent poetry,muchAmerican verse was undistinguished.The public was not particularly inter-ested in poetry and confined its reading to the classics and to \"pretty\"poems.However,at least as early as 1912,a new movement began when HarrietMonroe founded and became first editor of Poetry:A Magazine of Verse.By the time that Edgar Lee Masters began to write the \"new\"poetry,othershad already gained prominence in the poetry revival.Amy Lowell's A Domeof Many-Coloured Glass(1912)contained her first imagist pieces.VachelLindsay gained sudden fame with General William Booth Enters intoHeaven(1913).In England,an American poet,Robert Frost,publishedA Boy's Will(1913).Meanwhile,Carl Sandburg and others publishedfree verse poems in Poetry.But no other book of poetry achieved the phe-nomenal success of Masters'Spoon River Anthology.No other became abest-seller in the present sense of the word.No other created nation-wide,in fact,international,controversy.And few books have arrived at a moreopportune time.In 1914 America evinced perhaps an unusually high degreeof complacency,materialism,and narrow morality.Spoon River Anthologygave a much-needed shock to a large portion of the American reading public.Many read the book,and many others heard about it and argued about itfrom hearsay.Forty-eight years later it is almost impossible to imagine theimpact with which it arrived on the American scene.  \nImmediately after the publication of Spoon River Anthology in 1915,itbecame \"the most read and most talked-of volume of poetry that had ever  \n4  \nbeen written in America.\"3 During the first excitement of its appearance,itwas read for various reasons by different groups.⁴Those who knew classicalpoetry were amused and interested by the combination of an old Greek formwith Illinois material.Those who disapproved of the hollowness of muchcurrent poetry liked the grimness and concreteness of Spoon River Anthol-ogy.Many who usually avoided poetry read it because it had \"punch.\"Someread it to object to its picture of the small town.Others read it for noveltyor for shock or for a taste of what everyone else seemed to be reading.Somefound it queer or original;many disliked the philosophy;but few noticed theidealism,the god-seeking,the humor running throughout the book.  \nSpoon River Anthology begins with a free verse lyric suggested by theballade formula of Francois Villon.The question is,\"Where are Elmer,Herman,Bert,Tom and Charley\"5 and all the other Spoon River villagers?The refrain,with variations,is“All,all are sleeping,sleeping,sleeping onthe hill.\"The hill is,of course,the graveyard of the village of Spoon River.This introductory poem using the ubi sunt formula has a homely beauty andopens the book on an appropriate note.It introduces us to characters weshall learn more of later.We find that we shall meet not kings and noblesbut boozers,brawlers,simple people,frustrated ones,rich and poor.Weshall read of Fiddler Jones,\"Who played with life all his ninety years,\"","cbCaineQuP1XIiLC","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaineQuP1XIiLC","pdf",2867282,36,"English","# Ball State Monograph Number One\n## Context for the “new” poetry revival\n## Reception after publication in 1915\n## Structure: “The Hill” and the epitaph sequence\n## Later editions and additional works\n## “The Spooniad” and the “Epilogue”\n## The villagers and the monologue titles","[{\"question\":\"What literary factors helped make Spoon River Anthology so startling at the time of publication?\",\"answer\":\"The study links the anthology’s impact to the period’s weak, imitative poetic climate and to the book’s grim concreteness and “punch,” which provided a needed shock to readers.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Spoon River Anthology begin and what role does “The Hill” play?\",\"answer\":\"It opens with a free verse lyric using the ubi sunt formula, posing questions about the villagers’ whereabouts and repeating the refrain that they are “sleeping on the hill,” introducing characters through appropriate graveyard imagery.\"},{\"question\":\"What changes occur between the 1915 first edition and the definitive 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