| The Old Swimmin Hole and Leven More Poems Neghborly Poems on Friendship Grief and Farm Life Contributor(s): Johnson, Benjamin F. (Author), Riley, James Whitcomb (Author) |
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ISBN: 1162769491 ISBN-13: 9781162769493 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Collections |
| Dewey: 811 |
| Physical Information: 0.25" H x 6" W x 9" (0.37 lbs) 118 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 1891. Riley was known as the Hoosier poet. He was at various times a traveling actor, a sign painter, and a newspaperman. Under the name Benjamin F. Johnson of Boone he began to write verse in the Hoosier dialect for the Indianapolis Journal. These were first collected in The Old Swimmin-Hole and Leven More Poems. Riley's verse was popular because of its humor, pathos, simplicity, and sentimentality. |