Name: The Old Swimmin Hole and Leven More Poems Neghborly Poems on Friendship Grief and Farm Life
ISBN: 9780548009420

by Johnson, Benjamin F., Riley, James Whitcomb

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

by Johnson, Benjamin F., Riley, James Whitcomb

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ISBN-13: 9780548009420
ISBN: 0548009422
Publication Date: 2007
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC

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Johnson, Benjamin F., Riley, James Whitcomb

SUMMARY

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.Johnson, Benjamin F. is the author of 'The Old Swimmin Hole and Leven More Poems Neghborly Poems on Friendship Grief and Farm Life', published 2007 under ISBN 9780548009420 and ISBN 0548009422.

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