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Cover of Selected Riley Child-Rhymes

Selected Riley Child-Rhymes

James Whitcomb Riley

Length
23 min
Chapters
10
Language
English
Genre
Poetry
First published
1905

Riley was an American writer known as the "Hoosier poet", and made a start writing newspaper verse in Hoosier dialect for the Indianapolis Journal in 1875. His favorite authors were Burns and Dickens. This collection of poems is a romanticized and mostly boy-centered paean to a 19th century rural American working-class childhood. (Summary by Val Grimm)

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