Down Into This Land

by Edgar Lee Masters, Ryan Guth (Editor)

DOWN INTO THIS SELECTED POETRY OF EDGAR LEE MASTERS is the first truly representative selection of Edgar Lee Masters' poetry to appear since his death in 1950. Incorporating material from every phase of Masters' 50-year publishing career, newly edited and introduced by author Ryan Guth, this book is essential reading for anyone who loves the celebrated Spoon River Anthology.

308 pages, Paperback

Published February 7, 2022

About the author

Edgar Lee Masters (Garnett, Kansas, August 23, 1868 - Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1950) was an American poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems. In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman.