James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture . ?^CPXj. >--> /?^- scribed himself. Like most men whoundertake their own lives in a sentence,he has sacrificed a few truths for the sakeof humor—a not astounding circumstancein the case of Riley who refused to lookon life as a serious struggle. Unhappy ** he has not been. u Ill-starred he certainly was not. Greenfield,far from speeding the parting guest hasproven false the declaration concerningthe prophet and his own country. Henever has been given up. He has nomore sincere admirers, no warmer friendsthan the citizens of his native town. Yet in
James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture . ?^CPXj. >--> /?^- scribed himself. Like most men whoundertake their own lives in a sentence,he has sacrificed a few truths for the sakeof humor—a not astounding circumstancein the case of Riley who refused to lookon life as a serious struggle. Unhappy ** he has not been. u Ill-starred he certainly was not. Greenfield,far from speeding the parting guest hasproven false the declaration concerningthe prophet and his own country. Henever has been given up. He has nomore sincere admirers, no warmer friendsthan the citizens of his native town. Yet in this paragraph one may see abit reflecting the irresponsibility of hisearly life; of the instability, which pre-vented him from becoming a villagetradesman because he was to be a greatpoet; of the humor which rivals thepathos in his poems. If James Whitcomb Riley had notbeen intended to be a poet who should
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