The Vintage Poetry Collection
An exploration of poetry that has gone before

Spoon River Anthology

by Edgar Lee Masters

  1. The Hill
  2. Hod Putt
  3. Ollie McGee
  4. Fletcher McGee
  5. Robert Fulton Tanner
  6. Cassius Hueffer
  7. Serepta Mason
  8. Amanda Barker
  9. Chase Hentry
  10. Harry Carey Goodhue
  11. Judge Somers
  12. Benjamin Pantier
  13. Mrs. Benjamin Pantier
  14. Reuben Pantier
  15. Emily Sparks
  16. Trainor, the Druggist
  17. Daisy Fraser
  18. Benjamin Fraser
  19. Minerva Jones
  20. "Indignation" Jones
  21. "Butch" Weldy
  22. Doctor Meyers
  23. Mrs. Meyers
  24. Knowlt Hoheimer
  25. Lydia Puckett
  26. Frank Drummer
  27. Hare Drummer
  28. Doc Hill
  29. Sarah Brown
  30. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  31. Flossie Cabanis
  32. Julia Miller
  33. Johnnie Sayre
  34. Charlie French
  35. Zenas Witt
  36. Theodore the Poet
  37. The Town Marshal
  38. Jack McGuire
  39. Jacob Goodpasture
  40. Dorcas Gustine
  41. Nicholas Bindle
  42. Harold Arnett
  43. Margaret Fuller Slack
  44. George Trimble
  45. "Ace" Shaw
  46. Justice Arnett
  47. Willard Fluke
  48. Aner Clute
  49. Lucius Atherton
  50. Homer Clapp
  51. Deacon Taylor
  52. Sam Hookey
  53. Cooney Potter
  54. Fiddler Jones
  55. Nellie Clark
  56. Louise Smith
  57. Herbert Marshall
  58. George Gray
  59. Hon. Henry Bennett
  60. Griffy the Cooper
  61. A. D. Blood
  62. Robert Southey Burke
  63. Dora Williams
  64. Mrs. Williams
  65. William and Emily
  66. The Circuit Judge
  67. Blind Jack
  68. John Horace Burleson
  69. Nancy Knapp
  70. Barry Holden
  71. State's Attorney Fallas
  72. Wendell P. Bloyd
  73. Francis Turner
  74. Franklin Jones
  75. John M. Church
  76. Russian Sonia
  77. Barney Hainsfeather
  78. Petit, the Poet
  79. Pauline Barrett
  80. Mrs. Charles Bliss
  81. Mrs. George Reece
  82. Rev. Lemuel Wiley
  83. Thomas Ross, Jr.
  84. Rev. Abner Peet
  85. Jefferson Howard
  86. Albert Schirding
  87. Jonas Keene
  88. Yee Bow
  89. Washington McNeely
  90. Mary McNeely
  91. Daniel M'Cumber
  92. Georgine Sand Miner
  93. Thomas Rhodes
  94. Ida Chicken
  95. Penniwit, the Artist
  96. Jim Brown
  97. Robert Davidson
  98. Elsa Wertman
  99. Hamilton Greene
  100. Ernest Hyde
  101. Roger Heston
  102. Amos Sibley
  103. Mrs. Sibley
  104. Adam Weirauch
  105. Ezra Bartlett
  106. Amelia Garrick
  107. John Hancock Otis
  108. John Cabanis
  109. The Unknown
  110. Alexander Throckmorton
  111. Jonathan Swift Somers (Author of the Spooniad)
  112. Widow McFarlane
  113. Carl Hamblin
  114. Editor Whedon
  115. Eugene Carman
  116. Clarence Fawcett
  117. W. Lloyd Garrison Standard
  118. Professor Newcomer
  119. Ralph Rhodes
  120. Mickey M'Grew
  121. Rosie Roberts
  122. Oscar Hummel
  123. Josiah Tompkins
  124. Roscoe Purkapile
  125. Mrs. Purkapile
  126. Mrs. Kessler
  127. Harmon Whitney
  128. Bert Kessler
  129. Lambert Hutchins
  130. Lillian Stewart
  131. Hortense Robbins
  132. Batterton Dobyns
  133. Jacob Godbey
  134. Walter Simmons
  135. Tom Beatty
  136. Roy Butler
  137. Searcy Foote
  138. Edmund Pollard
  139. Thomas Trevelyan
  140. Percival Sharp
  141. Hiram Scates
  142. Peleg Poague
  143. Jeduthan Hawley
  144. Abel Melveny
  145. Oaks Tutt
  146. Elliott Hawkins
  147. Enoch Dunlap
  148. Ida Frickey
  149. Seth Compton
  150. Felix Schmidt
  151. Richard Bone
  152. Silas Dement
  153. Dillard Sissman
  154. E. C. Culbertson
  155. Shack Dye
  156. Hildrup Tubbs
  157. Henry Tripp
  158. Granville Calhoun
  159. Henry C. Calhoun
  160. Alfred Moir
  161. Perry Zoll
  162. Dippold the Optician
  163. Magrady Graham
  164. Archibald Higbie
  165. Tom Merritt
  166. Mrs. Merritt
  167. Elmer Karr
  168. Elizabeth Childers
  169. Edith Conant
  170. Father Malloy
  171. Ami Green
  172. Calvin Campbell
  173. Henry Layton
  174. Harlan Sewall
  175. Ippolit Konovaloff
  176. Henry Phipps
  177. Harry Wilmans
  178. John Wasson
  179. Many Soldiers
  180. Godwin James
  181. Lyman King
  182. Caroline Branson
  183. Anne Rutledge
  184. Hamlet Micure
  185. Mabel Osborne
  186. William H. Herndon
  187. Rutherford McDowell
  188. Hannah Armstrong
  189. Lucinda Matlock
  190. Davis Matlock
  191. Herman Altman
  192. Jennie M'Grew
  193. Columbus Cheney
  194. Marie Bateson
  195. Tennessee Claflin Shope
  196. Imanuel Ehrenhardt
  197. Samuel Gardner
  198. Dow Kritt
  199. William Jones
  200. William Goode
  201. J. Milton Miles
  202. Faith Matheny
  203. Willie Metcalf
  204. Willie Pennington
  205. The Village Atheist
  206. John Ballard
  207. Julian Scott
  208. Alfonso Churchill
  209. Zilpha Marsh
  210. James Garber
  211. Lydia Humphrey
  212. Le Roy Goldman
  213. Gustav Richter
  214. Arlo Will
  215. Captain Orlando Killion
  216. Jeremy Carlisle
  217. Joseph Dixon
  218. Russell Kincaid
  219. Aaron Hatfield
  220. Isaiah Beethoven
  221. Elijah Browning
  222. Webster Ford
  223. The Spooniad