| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Riley, James Whitcomb |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Ri·ley |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  r  l |
| DATES: | 1849–1916 |
| VARIANTS: | Known as “the Hoosier poet.” |
| American poet whose most famous works, “Little Orphant Annie” (1885) and “The Raggedy Man” (1890), were written in speech patterns particular to Indiana.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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