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The Old Swimmin Hole and Leven More Poems Neghborly Poems on Friendship Grief and Farm Life
The Old Swimmin Hole and Leven More Poems Neghborly Poems on Friendship Grief and Farm Life Author:Benjamin F. Johnson, James Whitcomb Riley 1891. Riley was known as the Hoosier poet. He was at various times a traveling actor, a sign painter, and a newspaperman. Under the name Benjamin F. Johnson of Boone he began to write verse in the Hoosier dialect for the Indianapolis Journal. These were first collected in The Old Swimmin-Hole and Leven More Poems. Riley's verse was popular becau... more »se of its humor, pathos, simplicity, and sentimentality.« less