“I was trapped in a business which destroyed every imaginative impulse, and took all my strength and all my time.”
About Edgar Lee Masters
23 August 1868–5 March 1950
In the pantheon of American literature, few poets have captured the essence of small-town life with such unflinching honesty and profound empathy as Edgar Lee Masters. Born in the twilight of the nineteenth century and dying in the shadow of World War II, Masters lived through one of the most transformative periods in…