Spoon River Anthology Author:Edgar Lee Masters Poetry - "The only near parallel of note in poetic drama that comes to mind, written since the Anthology is Dylan Thomas' play for voices, Under Milk Wood, set in a sleeping Welsh town; in scope, at least, Masters was the more daring, not to say extravagant. His ghosts freely gossip about each other and themselves, as well as about the private l... more »ives of neighbors still alive in their village...."« less