Author: James Whitcomb RileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Including Poems and Prose Sketches, Many of which Have Not Heretofore Been Published
Author: James Whitcomb RileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley
Author: James Whitcomb RileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The American author and poet was known for his dialect works and children's poetry.
The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley
Author: James Whitcomb RileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Vol. 4
Author: James Whitcomb RileyPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334153341
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Excerpt from The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Vol. 4: In Which the Poems, Including a Number Heretofore Unpublished, Are Arranged in the Order in Which They Were Written; Together With Photographs, Bibliographic Notes, and a Life Sketch of the Author About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Best of James Whitcomb Riley
Author: James Whitcomb RileyPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253106100
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The best-loved poems by the "Hoosier Poet" are here collected to read and cherish time and time again. Included are some of Riley’s most durable and endearing works—poems about nature, home, and country as well as the dialect poems for which Riley is famous.
The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley
Author: James Whitcomb RileyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732666131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley by James Whitcomb Riley
The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley
Author: James Whitcomb RileyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732666158
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley by James Whitcomb Riley
The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley
Author: James Whitcomb RileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley
Author: James Whitcomb RileyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258094249
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description
Few lives have left so vivid an impression upon a native environment asthat of James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier Poet. His folksy, down-home rhymes arestill enormously popular in his native state and beyond. This publication bringsback into print the complete Riley repertoire of more than 1,000 poems, includingsuch all-time favorites as "Little Orphant Annie" (far and away thebest-loved of all Riley characters), "The Raggedy Man," "Our HiredGirl," "A Barefoot Boy," "The Bumblebee,""Granny," and "When the Frost Is on the Punkin." It issaid that Indiana's best-known poet did not portray but invented the typicalHoosier. Applying imaginative skill, Riley altered and adapted the people around himto suit his purpose. As Jeannette Covert Nolan once put it, the figure who emergedwas "a mellow, humorous rustic, a quaint, bucolic philosopher, unlettered butgifted with an earthy shrewdness, a peasant wisdom, a heart of gold, speaking adrawling, hybrid tongue, a dubious dialect as yet unidentified by anyphilologist." In his heyday Riley was famous all over the world.Though often called a children's poet, he actually wrote about children for adults, delighting in emotional reminders of an irretrievable past -- perhaps one that neverquite existed. Throughout his life Riley looked back wistfully and sentimentallyupon his childhood days, turning the longings and unfulfilled dreams of youth intoverse. So celebrated was he in Indiana that in many public elementary schools, students were required to memorize and recite one of his poems every week foradmiring audiences of visiting parents. If I Knew What PoetsKnow If I knew what poets know, Did I know what poets do, If I knew whatpoets know, Would I write a rhyme Would I sing a song, I would find atheme Of the buds that never blow Sadder than the pigeon's coo Sweeter thanthe placid flow In the summer-time? When the days are long? Of the fairestdream: Would I sing of golden seeds Where I found a heart in pain, I wouldsing of love that lives Springing up in ironweeds? I would make it gladagain; On the errors it forgives: And of rain-drop turned to snow, And thefalse should be the true, And the world would better grow If I knew whatpoets know? Did I know what poets do. If I knew what poets know. -- JamesWhitcomb Riley
Author: James Whitcomb Riley