For ten points, identify this collection of poems about the dead residents of a Midwestern town, written by Edgar Lee Masters.
One work in this collection opens by addressing the men "who fought with Washington in Valley Forge," while another concerns a gun-smith from Odessa who just wanted to study Kant in peace. In another work, a character opines that "a moral truth is a hollow tooth which must be propped up with gold," and numerous works reference the collapse of the local bank under the leadership of Thomas Rhodes and his son Ralph. Archibald Higbie recalls how he loathed and tried to rise above the title location, whose more famous residents include Ann Rutledge, the purported love interest of Abraham Lincoln, and Lucinda Matlock. For ten points, identify this collection of poems about the dead residents of a Midwestern town, written by Edgar Lee Masters.
One work in this collection opens by addressing the men "who fought with Washington in Valley Forge," while another concerns a gun-smith from Odessa who just wanted to study Kant in peace.
{Spoon River Anthology}