Selected Riley Child-Rhymes
Chapter 1 of 10 Little Orphant Annie
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- Running time
- 23 min
- Language
- English
- Read by
- Val Grimm
Chapters
About this recording
Riley was an American writer known as the "Hoosier poet", and made a start writing newspaper verse in Hoosier dialect for the Indianapolis Journal in 1875. His favorite authors were Burns and Dickens. This collection of poems is a romanticized and mostly boy-centered paean to a 19th century rural American working-class childhood. (Summary by Val Grimm)