"If we boast of our best, we must repent of our worst. Otherwise patriotism will be a very poor thing indeed."
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Edgar Lee Masters August 23, 1869 to March 5, 1950 Born in Garnett, Kansas & Died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Poet and creator of the Spoon River Anthology.
Quote "I was not, after all, the particular care of God!"
Off-Site Resource Edgar Lee Masters Featured On The Website Modern American Poetry
Bibliography Poetry Spoon River Anthology - 1915 Songs and Satires - 1916 The Great Valley - 1916 The New Spoon River - 1924 The Serpent in the Wilderness - 1933 Illinois Poems - 1941 The Sangamon - 1942
Everything That Isn't Poetry Toward the Gulf - 1918 Starved Rock - 1919 Domesday Book - 1920 Mitch Miller - 1920 The Open Sea - 1921 Children of the Market Place - 1922 The Fate of the Jury: An Epilogue to Domesday Book - 1929 Across Spoon River: An Autobiography - 1936 Edgar Lee Masters Presents the Living Thoughts of Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1940
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"If we boast of our best, we must repent of our worst. Otherwise patriotism will be a very poor thing indeed."
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