Riley was born in 1849, the third of six children of a Greenfield attorney. He was a lackluster student but later turned his poor education ... now operates as the James Whitcomb Riley Museum ...

But through much of the era there was the figure of James Whitcomb Riley, running from poetry reading to poetry reading as he sold the idea of an authentic American verse. Before the decline of poetry ...

2019-12-21T12:14:07-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/bdf/20191221121626002_hd.jpgKnown as the Hoosier poet, James Whitcomb Riley is recognized for his poem ...