In his day, Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) was known as "America's Best Loved Poet". Today, I fear that most English departments regard his work as primitive kitsch and he has consequently become an obscurity. I regard that as unfortunate, but then my field of vision is wider than literature per se; I'm interested […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:18PM on October 7, 2021