James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture . s The Sugar Creek Ford. \N %. and the two events have been connectedas proof that the one caused the is not likely that the morals of a coun-try newspaper were violently offendedbecause one of its employes palmed off ahoax on the literary world. Howeverthat may be, Riley was lost to countryjournalism soon after the episode. His next venture was in Indianap-olis. The real poet had come out of thisattempt to prove his equality with theaccepted men of letters, and it was begin-ning to be recognized that a man whocould write well enough to decei
James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture . s The Sugar Creek Ford. \N %. and the two events have been connectedas proof that the one caused the is not likely that the morals of a coun-try newspaper were violently offendedbecause one of its employes palmed off ahoax on the literary world. Howeverthat may be, Riley was lost to countryjournalism soon after the episode. His next venture was in Indianap-olis. The real poet had come out of thisattempt to prove his equality with theaccepted men of letters, and it was begin-ning to be recognized that a man whocould write well enough to deceive criticsinto believing he was Edgar Allen Poemight write well enough to be acceptedas a poet himself. There had been a few before this, who,reading What the Wind Said, publishedin J 877 in the Kokomo Dispatch, hadbeen willing to grant it. Mr. Riley deserves to be considereda poet, said one reviewer when he readthe following from this poem: ** I muse today in a listless way, In the gleam of a summer land; 44 I close my eyes as a lover may At the touch of his sweethear
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