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10 unusual facts about James Whitcomb Riley


Adam Emory Albright

Themes portrayed by the man called the James Whitcomb Riley of the brush include country children at quiet play, at rest, and walking.

Cherry Hill Farmhouse

Poet James Whitcomb Riley included in his poems the Farmhouse and some of his residents.

Edgar Wilson Nye

Late in his career, he was briefly associated with James Whitcomb Riley with whom he wrote two books.

Hoosier

The poet James Whitcomb Riley facetiously suggested that the fierce brawling that took place in Indiana involved enough biting that the expression "Whose ear?" became notable.

J. R. Williams

A newspaper promotion of 1930 compared him to poets Eugene Field and James Whitcomb Riley.

McKinley National Memorial

United States Poet Laureate James Whitcomb Riley read a memorial poem he wrote in honor of the fallen president.

Raggedy Man

The Raggedy Man is also the name of a poem written in 1890 by James Whitcomb Riley.

Riley Children's Foundation

The Riley Memorial Association was founded in 1921 to honor beloved Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley.

Shakes versus Shav

Shaw then asserts that Adam Lindsay Gordon has outdone Shakespeare's verse, quoting the lines "The beetle booms adown the glooms/And bumps among the clumps" (in fact a garbled version of lines by James Whitcomb Riley).

William H. Block Co.

Restaurants located within the Illinois Street store included the Fountain Luncheonette, the Terrace Tea Room, the Men’s Grille, and the James Whitcomb Riley Room.


Charles M. Relyea

In 1897, a publishing house chose Relyea to illustrate The Rubáiyát of Doc Sifers, Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley's poem satirizing The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.