James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture . Where the cows slept on the cold, dewy grass. Ww- News and of papers in neighboring;towns. The general opinion in Green-field, based largely on the advertisingverses, was that Rileys poetry was** awful rot. The young poets friendswere not backward in telling him thatsuch was the case. Your verses certainly are awful,Jim, said the editor of the rival paperto him one day. Riley afterwards numbered that manamong his friends, but not at that par-ticular moment. If your poetry is so good, theywould say to hirn,u why dont the maga-zines take it? This was b
James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture . Where the cows slept on the cold, dewy grass. Ww- News and of papers in neighboring;towns. The general opinion in Green-field, based largely on the advertisingverses, was that Rileys poetry was** awful rot. The young poets friendswere not backward in telling him thatsuch was the case. Your verses certainly are awful,Jim, said the editor of the rival paperto him one day. Riley afterwards numbered that manamong his friends, but not at that par-ticular moment. If your poetry is so good, theywould say to hirn,u why dont the maga-zines take it? This was before Des-tiny had been published, and Riley hadno way of answering his critics except byfalling back on the defense which hasbeen used for time immemorial that thepublishers didnt know good poetry. I can write as good poems as goodpoets have written, Riley declared to hisfriends. He not only believed it, but he
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