Untermeyer.
Dial, 66 ('18): 83. (Aiken.)
New Repub. 17 ('18): 76. (Hackett.)
Poetry, 13 ('19): 335; 17 ('21): 332.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1918, 1920.
+James Whitcomb Riley+--poet.
Born at Greenfield, Indiana, 1853, of Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch
ancestry. Educated in the public schools, but received many higher
honorary degrees. Died in 1916.
Mr. Riley came to be the representative poet of his native state, the
"Hoosier poet," and many of his poems are written in the dialect of
Indiana, but his reputation is national. His numerous poems were
collected and published in ten volumes, as _Complete Works_, in 1916. For
detailed bibliography, cf. _Cambridge_, III (IV), 651.