spoon river anthology Author:edgar lee masters "The only near parallel of note in poetic drama...is Dylan Thomas' play for voices, Under Milkwood...; in scope at least, Masters was more daring....His ghosts freely gossip about each other and themselves, as well as about the private lives of neighbors still alive in their village. Masters let them be fearless in their sex revelations, and by... more » this he branded himself as the Kinsey of his day. Few of the ingredients of human corruption and vulnerability are missing....'« less