A woman’s voice of love from the grave:
Ann Rutledge by Edgar Lee Masters
Watch the entire series “101 Famous Poems” at Vimeo.com/HulaInk.
One reason I love this classic American collection of poems is that it’s old-fashioned-ness: all our modern self-fascination and trendy irony is gone and in it’s place is good old inspiration and love of duty and purpose. I think a lot of us are so caught up in the concern of our time that we lose sight of the values our world were built on – it’s healthy for all of us to recall them to mind once in a while.
Thus the 101 Famous Poem Project – producing every poem in the collection as a stand-alone videobook on Vimeo.
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About the poet:
Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868 – March 5, 1950) was an American lawyer, poet, playwright and biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain and others.
He was born in Garnett, Kansas, but grew up on a farm in Menard County, Illinois.
He had to cut short his college education due to financial problems but worked in his father’s law firm and was admitted to the Illinois bar and set up his own law offices in Chicago. For a time he defended the poor alongside Clarence Darrow.
He began writing in college and though he practiced law and published 12 plays, 21 books of poetry, 6 novels and 6 biographies, he died in poverty. Several of his children also became writers.
His most famous and beloved work is a cycle of short poems about small town America, Spoon River Anthology, from which Ann Rutledge is taken.
Ann Rutledge is said to have been the early love of Abraham Lincoln, but died in her youth.
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Who is Grumpy Old Writer?
E. T. Hansen is an American writer of fiction and non-fiction, in German and English, and lives in Berlin.
He writes fiction and non-fiction in English and German (Neuntöter, Blutbuche, Wassertöcher, Losing My Religion, The Cat Tales, Do Cats Have Souls?, The Art of Worldly Wisdom and more).
Many of his books and stories are published as complete videobooks on Vimeo.com/HulaInk.
You can support E.T. Hansen by:
– subscribing to Vimeo.com/HulaInk and sharing his videos;
– buying him a virtual whisky on PayPal.Me/HulaInk, or
– becoming a patron at Patreon.com/ETHansen.
But mostly I hope you enjoy and get something out of my work – Thanks for your support and I wish you all the love, luck and happiness in the world.
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Poets in this series include: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allen Poe, Alfred Tennyson, Percy Byssche Shelley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Wadsworth, John Milton and more.
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The music used in this video is “Indulge” and was provided for without copyright restriction by Apple as part of the software package Final Cut Pro X.
The photo of the poet and the text from which his or her biographical notes were adapted are taken from Wikipedia.
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