Upon the Occasion of the Lilly Library Sesquicentennial Exhibit, November 28, 1966
1967; Indiana University Press; Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1942-9711
Autores Tópico(s)Canadian Identity and History
ResumoOld Sivimmin'-Hole and 'Leven More Poems by Benjamin F. Johnson, of Boone, the first published work of the beloved James Whitcomb Riley, carries one down memory lane from Greenfield to Lockerbie Street. In the mind's eye we see again the old home on the National Road, where the skilled hand of his father, more woodworker than lawyer, carved the newel posts and the trundle bed. With the ear attuned we can hear his talented mother at the organ and the patter of little feet from cubby hole to press. The scene may shift to the travels with Old Doc McCrillus and the canvases the poet painted for his display of patented med icines?and the nostrums of bygone day. Or again to his exciting and reckless lecture tours with Bill Nye and his proper conduct with William Lyon Phelps, defender of Riley and his rhymes.
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