The Hoosier Book Containing Poems in Dialect (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Hoosier Book: Containing Poems in Dialect So it came about that, at the proper time, he suggested and even urged a companion volume, to contain only dialect verse, and with that spontaneous genius for nomenclature which was so remarkably his, instantly christened the new collection: The Hoosier Book - The Hoosier Book of Riley Verse. This was but a short time after his return to Indianapolis from a winter in the South, and only a few months before he departed on that last great journey to the land where it is always afternoon. His never imposed but always unerring taste, his gentle criticism, his tactful suggestions, all so helpful in the prep aration of The Lockerbie Book, have been wanting in the selection of poems for this volume, but the poems them: selves, every line, every word, had the final touch of his careful hand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.