Louis newspaper thought it was "too euphonic, mellifluous and pleasant for the unpleasant lives of Spoon River." Russell also notes that Masters wanted to call the book "Pleasant Plains Anthology" after a village near Petersburg, but William Marion Reedy who first published parts of the "Anthology" in his St. In fact, Russell reports, Masters probably passed by the site of the abandoned village without even knowing it. postal records show that a post office in Fulton County was located in a small, short-lived hamlet called Spoon River (1838-1847), which was apparently located near a point where the Spoon River itself flows into the Illinois River. Russell in his biography of Edgar Lee Masters, U.S. Masters was inspired by the name of what he called "a small stream winding its way through flatlands, amid hills that only distance lifts into any beauty," through "jungles of weeds" which led to the "vile and dangerous streets of Lewistown."īut according to Herbert K. Most people, including Edgar Lee Masters himself, thought the name of the town Spoon River was an original creation of the author of "Spoon River Anthology."
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