The Name Of Old Glory: Poems Of Patriotism

The Name of Old Glory: Poems of Patriotism is a collection of 20 patriotic works by James Whitcomb Riley which were written between 1890 and 1913. The cover is by artist Howard Chandler Christy, well-known for his patriotic World War I paintings and posters. Booth Tarkington, the Indiana novelist, has written an introductory "appreciation of the poet.""James Whitcomb Riley is the American people's poet. ... America has produced poets who could have been English poets, or, translated, French poets, or German; but Mr. Riley was never anything except American; translation into other tongues leaves him still purely American. Translation could not make one of his patriotic poems into a tribute to an emperor or a king. For what he loved above all else, throughout his life, was the American people; and he saw the great common soul of that people in the symbol of the Republic - Old Glory " - Booth Tarkington