James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture . with so much fervor, pathos humor andgrace. Riley puts his finger on spots in theheart of humanity which may have beenuntouched for years in the struggle of theworld but which confess their existenceas he reaches them. Poets have beenmore analytical, more mystical, moreemotional, more dramatic, more heroicbut none has been more human. It is on the last quality that Riley maybe placed as the great American poet—the distinctively American poet, the poetof a dialect which is becoming extinct butwhich will never be unintelligible, thepoet of pathos and h
James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture . with so much fervor, pathos humor andgrace. Riley puts his finger on spots in theheart of humanity which may have beenuntouched for years in the struggle of theworld but which confess their existenceas he reaches them. Poets have beenmore analytical, more mystical, moreemotional, more dramatic, more heroicbut none has been more human. It is on the last quality that Riley maybe placed as the great American poet—the distinctively American poet, the poetof a dialect which is becoming extinct butwhich will never be unintelligible, thepoet of pathos and humor which areessentially human and therefor
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