Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee Masters
246 chapters · 6 h 11 min · English
Read by Lokon, Matthew Shepherd, Kristin Hughes (1974-2021), Forrest Beal, Joshua Young, Kurt Copeland and others
Anthologies · Poetry
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This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, gossiping about their neighbors' lives. It's interesting to hear how other people perceive a particular character, and how that character responds.
Chapters
1 Hill, The 3 min 2 Hod Putt 1 min 3 Ollie McGee 1 min 4 Fletcher McGee 2 min 5 Robert Fulton Tanner 2 min 6 Cassius Hueffer 1 min 7 Serepta Mason 1 min 8 Amanda Barker 1 min 9 Constance Hately 1 min 10 Chase Henry 1 min 11 Harry Carey Goodhue 1 min 12 Judge Somers 1 min 13 Kinsey Keene 1 min 14 Benjamin Pantier 1 min 15 Mrs. Benjamin Pantier 1 min 16 Reuben Pantier 2 min 17 Emily Sparks 2 min 18 Trainor, the Druggist 2 min 19 Daisy Fraser 1 min 20 Benjamin Fraser 1 min 21 Minerva Jones 2 min 22 Indignation Jones 2 min 23 Doctor Meyers 1 min 24 Mrs. Meyers 1 min 25 Butch Weldy 1 min 26 Knowlt Hoheimer 2 min 27 Lydia Puckett 1 min 28 Frank Drummer 1 min 29 Hare Drummer 2 min 30 Conrad Siever 1 min 31 Doc Hill 1 min 32 Andy the Night-Watch 1 min 33 Sarah Brown 1 min 34 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1 min 35 Flossie Cabanis 1 min 36 Julia Miller 1 min 37 Johnnie Sayre 1 min 38 Charlie French 1 min 39 Zenas Witt 1 min 40 Theodore the Poet 1 min 41 Town Marshal, The 1 min 42 Jack McGuire 1 min 43 Dorcas Gustine 1 min 44 Nicholas Bindle 1 min 45 Jacob Goodpasture 1 min 46 Harold Arnett 2 min 47 Margaret Fuller Slack 1 min 48 George Trimble 1 min 49 Dr. Siegfried Iseman 1 min 50 Ace Shaw 1 min 51 Lois Spears 1 min 52 Justice Arnett 1 min 53 Willard Fluke 2 min 54 Aner Clute 1 min 55 Lucius Atherton 1 min 56 Homer Clapp 1 min 57 Deacon Taylor 1 min 58 Sam Hookey 1 min 59 Cooney Potter 1 min 60 Fiddler Jones 1 min 61 Nellie Clark 1 min 62 Louise Smith 1 min 63 Herbert Marshall 1 min 64 George Gray 1 min 65 Hon. Henry Bennett 1 min 66 Griffy the Cooper 1 min 67 Sexsmith the Dentist 1 min 68 A. D. Blood 1 min 69 Robert Southey 2 min 70 Dora Williams 2 min 71 Mrs. Williams 1 min 72 William and Emily 1 min 73 Circuit Judge, The 1 min 74 Blind Jack 1 min 75 John Horace Burleson 1 min 76 Nancy Knapp 1 min 77 Barry Holden 1 min 78 State's Attorney Fallas 1 min 79 Wendell P. Bloyd 2 min 80 Francis Turner 1 min 81 Franklin Jones 1 min 82 John M. Church 1 min 83 Russian Sonia 2 min 84 Isa Nutter 1 min 85 Barney Hainsfeather 1 min 86 Petit, the Poet 1 min 87 Pauline Barrett 2 min 88 Mrs. Charles Bliss 2 min 89 Mrs. George Reece 1 min 90 Rev. Lemuel Wiley 1 min 91 Thomas Ross, Jr 1 min 92 Rev. Abner Peet 1 min 93 Jefferson Howard 1 min 94 Judge Selah Lively 1 min 95 Albert Schirding 1 min 96 Jonas Keene 1 min 97 Eugenia Todd 1 min 98 Yee Bow 1 min 99 Washington McNeely 2 min 100 Paul McNeely 1 min 101 Mary McNeely 1 min 102 Daniel M'Cumber 1 min 103 Georgine Sand Miner 2 min 104 Thomas Rhodes 1 min 105 Ida Chicken 1 min 106 Penniwit, the Artist 1 min 107 Jim Brown 2 min 108 Robert Davidson 1 min 109 Elsa Wertman 2 min 110 Hamilton Greene 1 min 111 Ernest Hyde 1 min 112 Roger Heston 1 min 113 Amos Sibley 1 min 114 Mrs. Sibley 1 min 115 Adam Weirauch 1 min 116 Ezra Bartlett 1 min 117 Amelia Garrick 1 min 118 John Hancock Otis 1 min 119 Anthony Findlay 1 min 120 John Cabanis 1 min 121 Unknown, The 1 min 122 Alexander Throckmorton 1 min 123 Jonathan Swift Somers (Author of the Spooniad) 1 min 124 Widow McFarlane 1 min 125 Carl Hamblin 2 min 126 Editor Whedon 1 min 127 Eugene Carman 2 min 128 Clarence Fawcett 1 min 129 W. Lloyd Garrison Standard 2 min 130 Professor Newcomer 1 min 131 Ralph Rhodes 1 min 132 Mickey M'Grew 1 min 133 Rosie Roberts 1 min 134 Oscar Hummel 1 min 135 Roscoe Purkapile 2 min 136 Mrs. Purkapile 1 min 137 Josiah Tompkins 1 min 138 Mrs. Kessler 2 min 139 Harmon Whitney 2 min 140 Bert Kessler 1 min 141 Lambert Hutchins 2 min 142 Lillian Stewart 1 min 143 Hortense Robbins 1 min 144 Batterton Dobyns 1 min 145 Jacob Godbey 1 min 146 Walter Simmons 1 min 147 Tom Beatty 1 min 148 Roy Butler 2 min 149 Searcy Foote 2 min 150 Edmund Pollard 2 min 151 Thomas Trevelyan 2 min 152 Percival Sharp 2 min 153 Hiram Scates 2 min 154 Peleg Poague 1 min 155 Jeduthan Hawley 1 min 156 Abel Melveny 1 min 157 Oaks Tutt 2 min 158 Elliott Hawkins 2 min 159 Voltaire Johnson 1 min 160 English Thornton 2 min 161 Enoch Dunlap 1 min 162 Ida Frickey 2 min 163 Seth Compton 1 min 164 Felix Schmidt 2 min 165 Schroeder the Fisherman 1 min 166 Richard Bone 1 min 167 Silas Dement 1 min 168 Dillard Sissman 2 min 169 Jonathan Houghton 2 min 170 E. C. Culbertson 1 min 171 Shack Dye 1 min 172 Hildrup Tubbs 1 min 173 Henry Tripp 2 min 174 Granville Calhoun 1 min 175 Henry C. Calhoun 2 min 176 Alfred Moir 1 min 177 Perry Zoll 1 min 178 Dippold the Optician 2 min 179 Magrady Graham 2 min 180 Archibald Higbie 1 min 181 Tom Merritt 1 min 182 Mrs. Merritt 1 min 183 Elmer Karr 1 min 184 Elizabeth Childers 2 min 185 Edith Conant 2 min 186 Charles Webster 2 min 187 Father Malloy 2 min 188 Ami Green 1 min 189 Calvin Campbell 1 min 190 Henry Layton 1 min 191 Harlan Sewall 1 min 192 Ippolit Konovaloff 1 min 193 Henry Phipps 2 min 194 Harry Wilmans 1 min 195 John Wasson 2 min 196 Many Soldiers 2 min 197 Godwin James 2 min 198 Lyman King 1 min 199 Caroline Branson 3 min 200 Anne Rutledge 1 min 201 Hamlet Micure 2 min 202 Mabel Osborne 2 min 203 William H. Herndon 2 min 204 Rebecca Wasson 2 min 205 Rutherford McDowell 2 min 206 Hannah Armstrong 2 min 207 Lucinda Matlock 1 min 208 Davis Matlock 1 min 209 Herman Altman 1 min 210 Jennie M'Grew 1 min 211 Columbus Cheney 1 min 212 Wallace Ferguson 2 min 213 Maria Bateson 1 min 214 Tennessee Claflin Shope 1 min 215 Plymouth Rock Joe 2 min 216 Imanuel Ehrenhardt 1 min 217 Samuel Gardner 2 min 218 Dow Kritt 1 min 219 William Jones 1 min 220 William Goode 1 min 221 J. Milton Miles 1 min 222 Faith Matheny 1 min 223 Scholfield Huxley 2 min 224 Willie Metcalf 1 min 225 Willie Pennington 1 min 226 Village Atheist, The 1 min 227 John Ballard 1 min 228 Julian Scott 1 min 229 Alfonso Churchill 1 min 230 Zilpha Marsh 2 min 231 James Garber 2 min 232 Lydia Humphrey 1 min 233 Le Roy Goldman 1 min 234 Gustav Richter 2 min 235 Arlo Will 1 min 236 Captain Orlando Killion 1 min 237 Jeremy Carlisle 1 min 238 Joseph Dixon 2 min 239 Judson Stoddard 1 min 240 Russell Kincaid 1 min 241 Aaron Hatfield 2 min 242 Isaiah Beethoven 2 min 243 Elijah Browning 2 min 244 Webster Ford 2 min 245 Spooniad, The 17 min 246 Epilogue, The 28 min
