Your eight-page paper—behind which you huddle, Bawling through the megaphone of big type: ‘This is I, the giant.’
Edgar Lee Masters Quotes
Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.
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Edgar Lee Masters (10)
Birth: | 23rd August, 1868 |
Death: | 5th March, 1950 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Biographer, Lawyer, Poet |
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Edgar Lee Masters 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.
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