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See also:RILEY, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES WHITCOMB (1853– ) , See also:American poet, was See also:born in See also:Greenfield, See also:Indiana, in 1853. He spent several years as an itinerant sign-painter, actor and musician. During this vagabond experience he had opportunities to revise plays and compose songs, and was brought into See also:close See also:touch with the rural folk of Indiana, becoming See also:familiar with their See also:life and speech. About 1873 he first contributed verses, especially in the Hoosier See also:dialect, to the papers, and he soon became See also:local editor of the See also:- ANDERSON
- ANDERSON, ADAM (1692—1765)
- ANDERSON, ALEXANDER (c. 1582-1620?)
- ANDERSON, ELIZABETH GARRETT (1836— )
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1662—1728)
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1739-1808)
- ANDERSON, JOHN (1726-1796)
- ANDERSON, MARY (1859– )
- ANDERSON, RICHARD HENRY (1821–1879)
- ANDERSON, ROBERT (1750–1830)
- ANDERSON, SIR EDMUND (1530-1605)
Anderson (Ind.) Democrat. In See also:August 1877, over the See also:initials " E.A.P.," he printed in the See also:Kokomo (Indiana) See also:Dispatch a poem, Leonainie, in the manner of See also:Poe.' The See also:press throughout the See also:country copied the poem, and many critics of acknowledged authority believed it to have been actually written by Poe, until the hoax was explained by the See also:paper in which it first appeared. To the See also:Indianapolis Daily See also:Journal Riley contributed many poems, the best known being a See also:series in dialect which purported to have been written by one " See also:Benjamin F. See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson, of See also:Boone," a See also:farmer. These he published in See also:book See also:form, under the same See also:pen-name, as The Old Swimmin' Hole and 'See also:Leven More Poems (1883). He wrote. See also:short stories and sketches, some of unusual merit, but is known almost exclusively as a poet. Of his poems some are in conventional See also:English, many others in the Hoosier dialect of the See also:Middle-See also:West. His materials are the homely incidents and aspects of See also:village and country life,
' The poem was accompanied by a statement from the editor of the paper that it was " from the gifted pen of the erratic poet, See also:Edgar See also:Allan Poe," and by a circumstantial See also:story to the effect that the poem had been found written on the See also:fly-See also:leaf of an old Latin-English See also:dictionary then owned by " an uneducated and illiterate See also:man " in Kokomo, who had received it from his grandfather, in whose See also:tavern, near See also:Richmond, Va., it had been See also:left by " a See also:young man who showed plainly the marks of dissipation."especially of Indiana, and his manner is marked by delicate See also:imagination and naive See also:humour and tenderness.
The bulk of his See also:work appeared in The See also:Boss Girl and Other Sketches (1886), republished in 1891 as Sketches in See also:Prose; Afterwhiles (1887); Pipes o' See also:Pan at Zekesbury (1888) ; Rhymes of Childhood (189o) ; Neighborly Poems (1891); The Flying Islands of the See also:Night (1891), a fantastic See also:blank See also:verse See also:drama; See also:Green See also:Fields and See also:Running See also:Brooks (1892) ; Poems Here at See also:Home (1893) ; Armazindy (1894), which contains the poem " Leonainie•"; A See also:Child-See also:World (1896), reminiscent of his own boyhood; The Rubdiydt of Doc Sifers (1897) ; Home Folks (1900) ; The Book of Joyous See also:Children (1902) ; His Pa's See also:Romance (1903) ; A Defective See also:Santa Claus (1904) ; and in several books of selections, such as Old Fashioned See also:Roses (1889), published in See also:England ; Child Rhymes (1898); Love Lyrics (1899); The See also:Golden See also:Year 1899), published in England; See also:Farm Rhymes (1901); An Old Sweetheart of Mine (1902) ; Out to Old Aunt See also:Mary's (1904) ; Songs o' Cheer (1905); See also:Morning (1907); and Songs of Summer (1908).
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