Masters entered a law partnership in 1893 and succeeded professionally, socially, and financially. Admitted to the bar in 1891, in 1892 he left for Chicago. In 1889 he entered Knox College, but his father refused help, so he returned to law in Lewistown. He read James Cullen Bryant, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Burns, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, wrote poetry, and read law in his father's office. Masters continued his schooling, worked in a printer's office, and reported for local newspapers. In 1880 the family moved to Lewistown near the Spoon River.
Edgar's father won appointment as state's attorney in Petersburg, and there the young boy started school.
A year later his father's law practice failed and the family moved to the grandfather's Illinois farm. Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950), American author and lawyer, is mainly remembered for his "Spoon River Anthology," a collection of free verse about small-town American life.Įdgar Lee Masters was born on Aug.
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