If I knew what poets know. --James Whitcomb Riley This publication brings back into print the complete Riley repertoire of more than 1000 poems.
Included are some of Riley’s most durable and endearing works—poems about nature, home, and country as well as the dialect poems for which Riley is famous.
James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) was an American writer, poet, and best selling author, known as the "Hoosier Poet." Riley's poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, often in dialect.