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Markers for the Dead
Belitt, Ben | September 26, 1936 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Poems of People," by Edgar Lee Masters. Masters first occupied himself with the writing of "Poems of People" in 1923, selecting his subjects at random from history, imagination, and personal experience, with the idea of projecting a summation of life, of tragedy and comedy, of heroism and failure, of courage in battle and the walks of peace, of happiness and suffering, resignation and rebellion. The tone of the book is one of mordant nostalgia for the past, of contempt for the sterility and possessiveness of modern life, of proud personal estrangement, and of a general insistence on the stoic virtues of soldierly self-reliance and the heroic will.

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POEMS of People (Book); MASTERS, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950; POETRY; BOOKS; LITERATURE
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