Mr. Riley came to be the representative poet of his native state, the “Hoosier poet,” and many of his poems are written in the dialect of Indiana, but his reputation is national. His numerous poems were collected and published in ten volumes, as Complete Works, in 1916. For detailed bibliography, cf. Cambridge, III (IV), 651.
Studies and Reviews
- Cambridge.
- Pattee.
- Atlan. 118 (’16): 503. (Nicholson.)
- Bookm. 20 (’04): 18; 33 (’11): 67 (portrait); 35 (’12): 357 (portrait), 637; 38 (’13): 163 (portrait), 598; 44 (’16): 22 (portraits), 58, 79.
- Cur Lit. 41 (’06): 160 (portrait); 57 (’14): 425 (portrait).
- Cur. Op. 61 (’16): 196 (portrait).
- J. Educ. 84 (’16): 149, 298.
- Lit. Digest, 47 (’13): 782; 53 (’16): Aug. 1, pp. 304 (portrait), 408; 51 (’15): 730.
- Nation, 97 (’13): 332.
- No. Am. 204 (’16): 421.
- Outlook, 111 (’15): 249, 273 (portrait), 396; 113 (’16): 778.
- R. of Rs. 54 (’16): 327 (portrait).
- World’s Work, 22 (’11): 14777 (portrait); 25 (’13): 565.
- Yale R. n. s. 9 (’20): 395.
Charles George Douglas Roberts—novelist, poet, Nature writer.
Born at Douglas, New Brunswick, 1860. Studied at the University of New Brunswick, 1876. Has been a teacher, editor, soldier. In France during the War.
Major Roberts has published many volumes of poems, besides novels and animal stories.
For bibliography, see Who’s Who (English). For reviews, see Book Review Digest, 1914, 1916, 1919.
Edwin Arlington Robinson—poet.
Born at Head Tide, Maine, 1869. Educated at Gardiner, Maine, on the Kennebec River (“Tilbury Town”). Studied at Harvard, 1891-3. Struggled in various ways to make a living in New York, even working in the subway, while publishing his first poems. His Captain Craig, 1902, attracted the attention of Roosevelt, who gave the author a position in the New York Custom House, which he held 1905-10. Since then he has been able to give his entire time to poetry.