Spoon River Anthology
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An American poetry classic, in which former citizens of a mythical midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dreams of their lives.
IntroductionxvAltman, Herman218Armstrong, Hannah215Arnett, Harold47Arnett, Justice53Atheist, The Village236Atherton, Lucius56Ballard, John237Barker, Amanda9Barrett, Pauline88Bartlett, Ezra117Bateson, Marie222Beatty, Tom148Beethoven, Isaiah252Bennett, Hon. Henry66Bindle, Nicholas45Bliss, Mrs. Charles89Blood, A. D.69Bloyd, Wendell P.80Bone, Richard170Branson, Caroline205Brown, Jim108Brown, Sarah34Browning, Elijah253Burke, Robert Southey70Burleson, John Horace76Butler, Roy149Cabanis, Flossie36Cabanis, John121Calhoun, Granville178Calhoun, Henry C.179Campbell, Calvin193Carlisle, Jeremy247Carman, Eugene128Cheney, Columbus220Chicken, Ida106Childers, Elizabeth188Church, John M.83Churchill, Alfonso239Clapp, Homer57Clark, Nellie62Clute, Aner55Compton, Seth167Conant, Edith189Culbertson, E. C.174Davidson, Robert109Dement, Silas171Dippold the Optician182Dixon, Joseph248Dobyns, Batterton145Drummer, Frank29Drummer, Hare30Dunlap, Enoch165Dye, Shack175Ehrenhardt, Imanuel226Epilogue267Fallas, State's Attorney79Fawcett, Clarence129Ferguson, Wallace221Findlay, Anthony120Fluke, Willard54Foote, Searcy150Ford, Webster255Fraser, Benjamin21Fraser, Daisy20French, Charlie39Frickey, Ida166Garber, James241Gardner, Samuel227Garrick, Amelia118Godbey, Jacob146Goldman, Le Roy243Goode, William230Goodhue Harry Carey12Goodpasture, Jacob46Graham, Magrady183Gray, George65Green, Ami192Greene, Hamilton111Griffy the Cooper67Gustine, Dorcas44Hainsfeather, Barney86Hamblin, Carl126Hately, Constance10Hatfield, Aaron251Hawkins, Elliott161Hawley, Jeduthan158Henry, Chase11Herndon, William H.211Heston, Roger113Higbie, Archibald184Hill, Doc32Hill, The1Hoheimer, Knowlt27Holden, Barry78Hookey, Sam59Houghton, Jonathan173Howard, Jefferson94Hueffer, Cassius7Hummel, Oscar135Humphrey, Lydia242Huxley, Scholfield233Hutchins, Lambert142Hyde, Ernest112Iseman, Dr. Siegfried50Jack, Blind75James, Godwin203Joe, Plymouth Rock224Johnson, Voltaire163Jones, Fiddler61Jones, Franklin82Jones, "Indignation"23Jones, Minerva22Jones, William229Judge, The Circuit74Karr, Elmer187Keene, Jonas97Keene, Kinsey14Kessler, Bert141Kessler, Mrs.139Killion, Captain Orlando246Kincaid, Russell250King, Lyman204Knapp, Nancy77Konovaloff, Ippolit196Kritt, Dow228Layton, Henry194Lively, Judge Selah95M'Cumber, Daniel103McDowell, Rutherford214McFarlane, Widow125McGee, Fletcher5McGee, Ollie4M'Grew, Jennie219M'Grew, Mickey133McGuire, Jack43McNeely, Mary102McNeely, Paul101McNeely, Washington100Malloy, Father191Marsh, Zilpha240Marshal, The Town42Marshall, Herbert64Mason, Serepta8Matheny, Faith232Matlock, Davis217Matlock, Lucinda216Melveny, Abel159Merritt, Mrs.186Merritt, Tom185Metcalf, Willie234Meyers, Doctor24Meyers, Mrs.25Micure, Hamlet208Miles, J. Milton231Miller, Julia37Miner, Georgine Sand104Moir, Alfred180Newcomer, Professor131Night-Watch, Andy the33Nutter, Isa85Osborne, mabel210Otis, John Hancock119Pantier, Benjamin15Pantier, Mrs. Benjamin16Pantier, Reuben17Peet, Rev. Abner93Pennington,Willie235Penniwit, The Artist107Petit, The Poet87Phipps, Henry197Poague, Peleg157Pollard, Edmund152Potter, Cooney60Puckett, Lydia28Purkapile, Mrs.137Purkapile, Roscoe136Putt, Hod3Reece, Mrs. George90Rhodes, Ralph132Rhodes, Thomas105Richter, Gustav244Robbins, Hortense144Roberts, Rosie134Ross, Thomas, Jr.92Russian Sonia84Rutledge, Anne207Sayre, Johnnie38Scates, Hiram156Schirding, Albert96Schmidt, Felix168Schrceder the Fisherman169Scott, Julian238Sexsmith the Dentist68Sewall, Harlan195Sharp, Percival154Shaw, "Ace"51Shelley, Percy Bysshe35Shope, Tennessee Claflin223Sibley, Amos114Sibley, Mrs.115Siever, Conrad31Simmons, Walter147Sissman, Dillard172Slack, Margaret Fuller48Smith, Louise63Soldiers, Many202Somers, Jonathan Swift124Somers, Judge13Sparks, Emily18Spears, Lois52Spooniad, The257Standard, W. Lloyd Garrison130Stewart, Lillian143Stoddard, Judson249Tanner, Robert Fulton6Taylor, Deacon58Theodore the Poet41Thornton, English164Throckmorton, Alexander123Todd, Eugenia98Tompkins, Josiah138Trainor, the Druggist19Trevelyan, Thomas153Trimble, George49Tripp, Henry177Tubbs, Hildrup176Turner, Francis81Tutt, Oaks160Unknown, The122Wasson, John201Wasson, Rebecca213Webster, Charles190Weirauch, Adam116Weldy, "Butch"26Wertman, Elsa110Whedon, Editor127Whitney, Harmon140Wiley, Rev. Lemuel91Will, Arlo245William and Emily73Williams, Dora71Williams, Mrs.72Wilmans, Harry199Witt, Zenas40Yee Bow99Zoll, Perry181For Further Reading285
