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

Benjamin F Johnson,James Whitcomb Riley

Format
Hardback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing
Country
United States
Published
10 September 2010
Pages
118
ISBN
9781163321676

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

Benjamin F Johnson,James Whitcomb Riley

  1. 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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