![]() For many readers, it inhabits the same nostalgic region as Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, both of which drew inspiration from it. In youth my wings were strong and tireless,īut my weary wings could not follow my vision-Ī whiff of quaintness, of simpler days gone by, surrounds the popular impression of Spoon River Anthology. “As one of your poets has put it,” the pontiff explained, the church required “‘strong and tireless wings’ combined with the wisdom of one who ‘knows the mountains.’” How many of the bishops, literate as they might be, recognized that Francis was quoting a gnomic (and faintly Nietzschean) poem from Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology, a book that happened to be celebrating its centennial that year? During his 2015 visit to the United States, Pope Francis told an audience of American bishops that the Catholic Church should seek to fuse the “epic struggle” of the pioneers with the “homely wisdom” of the settlers. ![]()
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