In The Dark

About this film

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of In The Dark by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 23, 2015. Read in English by Bruce Kachuk; Chris Pyle; Doug Fajardo; David Lawrence; Eva K.; Newgatenovelist; Garth Burton; J. McDougall; Lee Ann Howlett; Larry Wilson; Leonard Wilson; NoelBadrian; Philippa; SkyAlbatross and NatureNerd. James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, the majority are in dialect. Riley began his career writing verses as a sign maker and submitting poetry to newspapers. Thanks in part to an endorsement from poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, he eventually earned successive jobs at Indiana newspaper publishers during the latter 1870s. Riley became a bestselling author in the 1890s. His children's poems were compiled into a book and illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy. Titled the Rhymes of Childhood, the book was his most popular and sold millions o…

Directors & creators

James Whitcomb Riley

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks; literature; poetry; dark; night; waiting

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