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Showing posts with label James Whitcomb Riley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Whitcomb Riley. Show all posts
December 19, 2014

Riley and Garland: Dont y' Darst!

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James Whitcomb Riley was not long involved with politics, but he visited Washington, D.C. and the White House in 1888 and advocated for i...
June 4, 2014

Madison Cawein: done gone and got married

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Madison Cawein married Gertrude McKelvey in Louisville, Kentucky, on June 4, 1903 at 7 a.m. The ceremony, which took place at St. Paul...
January 25, 2013

Cawein to Riley: recognition of your genius

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"Dear old boy," began Madison Cawein 's telegram to James Whitcomb Riley , dated, January 25, 1912: I want to be the firs...
October 7, 2012

Birth of Riley, Hoosier Poet

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James Whitcomb Riley was born October 7, 1849 in Greenfield, Indiana, a short ride from Indianapolis (where he spent his later years). Na...
March 25, 2012

Stoddard: most favored of the gods

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The Authors' Club in New York threw a dinner in honor of Richard Henry Stoddard on March 25, 1897. Edmund Clarence Stedman opened the...
December 12, 2011

Riley on McCulloch: heroically voicing

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Oscar C. McCulloch moved to Indianapolis from Wisconsin at a terrible time in the state's history. Hurt by a bank panic, its citizens w...
October 15, 2011

Riley: sailing off, with never word at all

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The " Hoosier Poet " James Whitcomb Riley had such difficulty getting published in his early career that he turned to gimmicks ....
August 13, 2011

O'Reilly and Riley: Beyond wonderment

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After the death of Irish-born poet John Boyle O'Reilly (pictured), the " Hoosier Poet " James Whitcomb Riley was moved to w...
July 8, 2011

O noble, true and pure and lovable

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In 1893, James Whitcomb Riley was traveling on a lecture tour of the United States. At some point, he stopped at his childhood home where...
May 17, 2011

Dana and Riley: I do not like it at all

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Critic (and former Brook Farmer ) Charles Anderson Dana wrote to James Whitcomb Riley about "the great talent" in his poetry . ...
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April 2, 2011

Riley: children by Divine birthright

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On April 2, 1904, Collier's Weekly published "The Children of the Childless" by James Whitcomb Riley . The Indiana-based poet...
September 1, 2010

Riley: the horror crept

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August 1886 ended with a massive earthquake in Charleston, South Carolina. Though it lasted less than a minute, it caused substantial damage...
August 31, 2010

Cawein and Riley: bridging the gap

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By the end of the 19th century, the so-called Fireside Poets were all dead, writers like  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , James Russell Lowell ...
August 2, 2010

A great Poe hoax

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A headline in the August 2, 1877 issue of The Dispatch announced the discovery of a "Hitherto Unpublished Poem of the Lamented Edgar...
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July 26, 2010

James Whitcomb Riley: every hope serene

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In his early career as a poet, James Whitcomb Riley struggled to get attention . He approached several newspapers to print his works, parti...
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May 31, 2010

Coates: For Death make room!

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On May 31, 1889, the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania suffered a massive flood when a neglected dam failed during a storm. The man-made Cone...
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