The Complete Poetical Works of JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, The Hoosier Poet.

　　Beginning by Donald Culross Peattie.

　　8.50" x 5.75" x 2.00" thick, hardcover, no dust jacket.

　　886 pages, Preface, Index of Titles.

　　Frontis picture of James Whitcomb Riley by John Singer Sargent.

　　1937 Edition 1935, Grosset & & Dunlap (by plan with Bobbs-Merrill).

　　The folksy Hoosier James Whitcomb Riley (1) is America's leading poet of the emotional.

　　The Complete Poetical Works Of JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY combines even more than 1,000 touching, humorous, simple to check out poems, lots of filled with longing for irretrievable youth pleasure, flexibility, and innocence.

　　Today's readers will find this volume a real time pill into the past, evoking not just the reader's own memories of childhood, but likewise a simpler and possibly more innocent and joyous America. The ambitions and expectations expressed by the speakers, storytellers, and characters in the poems are simple, the horizons of their world near. Among the tricks of Riley's backward-glancing poems is that his reflections are just partially regretful; the delights of the past are equated to by the child-like pleasure still present in the adult poet's heart. Dozens of the pieces included here are suitable for reading to and showing children.

　　Titles such as The Swimming Hole, The Noble Old Elm, Company Manners, When Mother Combed My Hair, Us Farmers In The Country, My First Spectacles, Blooms In May, Two Sonnets To The June -Bug, The Land Of Used-To-Be, and Our Boyhood Haunts provide a great indication of the book's content.

　　There are numerous nature poems and events of the periods, summer meadows of "clover to the knee," "August moons, lazy rivers," "the twitter of the bluebird and the wren," and, in among Riley's most popular, the frost "on the punkin.".

　　Despite its general simplicity, Riley's work comfortably rests within the grander custom of American literature and produces visionary reading in its own special, whimsical way.

　　Condition - General: This book is bound in a green cloth with gilt spine lettering and floral decoration. Name "James Whitcomb Riley" is embossed on the front board. No dust coat. Book reveals a little edge wear but otherwise is in solid and extremely clean condition. Leading and bottom of spine and board corners are somewhat bumped. The page edges have actually browned with age. Spinal column is sound. Frontis image is undamaged. Ink inscription on FEP.

　　Condition - Book Interior: Complete, clean, seems unmarked.

　　General Condition: Very Good. An extremely great copy considering its age.

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