The best-loved poems by the "Hoosier Poet" are here collected to read and cherish time and time again. Included are some of Riley’s most durable and endearing

If I knew what poets know. --James Whitcomb Riley

Van Allen sifts facts from fiction to construct as true a portrait of Riley as possible in the context of the society in which he lived."--BOOK JACKET.

Rich selection of verses. "The Raggedy Man," "When the Frost Is on the Punkin," "Little Orphant Annie," and "An Old Sweetheart of Mine."