Those innocent years
the legacy and inheritance of a hero of the Victorian era, James Whitcomb Riley
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1957 - The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana
Language
English
Word Count
72,000 words, Guess
Page Count
288 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivethoseinnocentyea00crow
- Library of Congress Control Number57009342
- OCLC Control Number1371175
- Open LibraryOL24754825M
Classifications
- DDC928.1
- LCCPS2706 .C7
Description
By 1882 the Middle West was fairly well settled. It was already beginning to find time to cultivate the beautiful, to feed its sensibilities. Early in this year James Whitcomb Riley came out of Indiana to Boston -- unheralded, unknown, totally innocent -- and astounded a sophisticated audience with his enchanting verses. From that date legends began to grow about the Hoosier Poet until now -- 75 years later -- fact and fiction are sometimes inextricable and a sentimental haze surrounds his life. A search for the truth, however, reveals that he was the beau ideal of his time and place, the looking glass in which the Midwest saw its own archetypal reflection. - Prologue.
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