Lawyer and Child
Source: Father: An Anthology of Verse (EP Dutton & Company, 1931)
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Poet James Whitcomb Riley 1849–1916
SCHOOL / PERIOD Victorian
Subjects Relationships, Family & Ancestors, Arts & Sciences, Humor & Satire, Social Commentaries, History & Politics
Holidays Father's Day
Biography
Known as “The Hoosier Poet” because of his birth in Indiana and poems celebrating the state, and as “The Children’s Poet” due to his appeal for young readers, James Whitcomb Riley was one of his day’s best-selling writers. Full of sentiment and traditional in form, his work features rustic subjects who speak in a homely, countrified dialect. When Riley died, Woodrow Wilson called him “a man who imparted joyful pleasure and a . . .
Poems by James Whitcomb Riley
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Relationships, Family & Ancestors, Arts & Sciences, Humor & Satire, Social Commentaries, History & Politics
SCHOOL / PERIOD Victorian
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