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James Whitcomb Riley

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Noun1.James Whitcomb RileyJames Whitcomb Riley - United States poet (1849-1916)      


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In his Pisan Cantos (perhaps his greatest celebration of the locus amoenus, written only a few miles south of Pea's Viareggio), he mentions Pea in the same breath as James Whitcomb Riley, the American dialect poet and a lifelong favorite of Pound's, as was Joel Chandler Harris.
What resulted is ``The Days Gone By,'' which features the poetry of American poets including Edgar Allen Poe (``Eldorado''), James Whitcomb Riley (``The Days Gone By''), Emily Dickinson (``Will There Really Be a Morning?
Ninety years ago, at the time The Progressive was born, Debs was nationally famous as leader of the Socialist Party, and the poet James Whitcomb Riley wrote of him:
 
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