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The Old Swimmin Hole and Leven More Poems Neghborly Poems on Friendship Grief and Farm Life
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The Old Swimmin Hole and Leven More Poems Neghborly Poems on Friendship Grief and Farm Life

Benjamin F. Johnson,James Whitcomb Riley
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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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing Co
Country
United States
Date
1 April 2005
Pages
120
ISBN
9780766198081

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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing Co
Country
United States
Date
1 April 2005
Pages
120
ISBN
9780766198081

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