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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
the East, and a popular reader of his own work. In 1873 he published Farm ballads, a group of crudely sentimental pieces directed at the common heart of humanity; forty thousand copies were sold within a year and a half. Poems like Out of the Old House, Nancy, and Gone with a Handsomer man were not too good for anybody. Carleton's success foreshadows the still greater success of another journalist and public reader of his own verse, the People's Laureate, James Whitcomb Riley. Of Pennsylvania Dutch and Irish stock, the latter predominating, he was born in 1849 in the country town of Greenfield, Indiana, where his father had attained a considerable local reputation as a lawyer and orator. In his boyhood Riley was, as he says, always ready to declaim and took natively to anything dramatic or theatrical. He was fond of poetry before he could read it, carrying a copy of Quarles's Divine Emblems about with him for the sake of its feel. In later years his favourite authors were Bur