Edgar Lee Masters and the Dramatic Monologue: Innovations ...

International Journal of Arts and Sciences 3( 10 ): 176 - 206 (2010 ) CD-ROM. ISSN: 1944-6934 Edgar Lee Masters and the Dramatic Monologue: Innovations and New Dimensions Neelam Aggarwal, SIM University, Singapore Abstract: One of the most artistic contributions of American poets at the beginning of the twentieth century is the development of the Dramatic monologue which they took up from the Victorian poet, Robert Browning, the most modern, to modern people the most important of poets. The Dramatic monologue was particularly suited to the needs of the modern American poets and their experiments with this form are highly innovative. It is significant that these poets were able to entertain possibilities that had not been foreseen by the earlier users of the form even as they did not completely break away from the past.

Spoon River Anthology was originally conceived as a novel: Masters wrote in his autobiography, Across Spoon River, that he had at times thought of writing an extended work in prose. He felt that his life in Chicago had shown him that “the country lawyer and the city lawyer were essentially the same; that the country banker and the city banker

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