![]() ‘Fiddler Jones’ by Edgar Lee Masters is an account of Fiddler Jones, who played the fiddle throughout his life. You can read the full text of ‘Fiddler Jones’ below: Fiddler Jones Edgar Lee Masters Of the horse-races of long ago at Clary’s Grove, Lo! he babbles of the fish-frys of long ago, Who played with life all his ninety years,ĭrinking, rioting, thinking neither of wife nor kin, Masters introduces the character of Fiddler Jones in the opening poem ‘The Hill.’ He talks about Jones in the last six lines of the poem that reads: This poem is about a wayward lad from the Spoon River who lived his life playing the fiddle, without any care for worldly possessions or material pleasures. The anthology exists to highlight the living conditions in the small towns and villages of America. The collection consists of 244 accounts of the characters’ lives with cross-references that form a beautiful tapestry of life events in the book. This anthology was a cumulative account of 212 different characters, who all lived in a fictional small town named after Spoon River. Edgar Lee Masters’s poem ‘Fiddler Jones’ was published as part of the Spoon River Anthology in 1916 edition. ![]()
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