Your eight-page paper—behind which you huddle, Bawling through the megaphone of big type: ‘This is I, the giant.’
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Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
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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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