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DOMESDAY BOOK
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY
BY EDGAR LEE MASTERS
SOME PRESS OPINIONS
"One of the greatest books of the present century."--_Nation._
"The 'Spoon River Anthology' has certain qualities essential togreatness--originality of conception and treatment, a daring that wouldsoar to the stars, an instant felicity and facility of expression."--C. E.LAWRENCE in _The Daily Chronicle_.
"Mr. Edgar Lee Masters will become a classic ... so close-packed is thebook's pregnant wit, so outspoken its language, so destructive of cant andpharisaism and the veneer of the proprieties, so piercingly true ininsight."--EDWARD GARNETT in _The Manchester Guardian_.
"It is a remarkable book and it grips."--_Daily Telegraph._
"This book is of a quality that will endure.... Mr. Masters has beendaring with the certainty of success."--_Liverpool Daily Post._
"A quite remarkable volume of verse ... quite masterly."--_Sphere._
"Its reality, ingenuity, irony, insight, and vision areunique."--_Bookman._
DOMESDAY BOOK
BY EDGAR LEE MASTERS AUTHOR OF "SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY," ETC.
LONDON EVELEIGH NASH COMPANY LIMITED 1921
COPYRIGHT IN THE U. S. A. BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
_Printed in the United States of America_
TO MY FATHER HARDIN WALLACE MASTERS SPLENDID INDIVIDUAL OF A PASSING SPECIES--AN AMERICAN