FLYING ISLANDS OF THE NIGHT JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY FRANKLIN BOOTH ILLUSTRATIONS
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FLYING ISLANDS OF THE NIGHT JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY FRANKLIN BOOTH ILLUSTRATIONS
The Flying Islands of the Night James Whitcomb RileyIllustrations Franklin Booth; 16 tipped in color plates with tissue guards on gray card stock.Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1913 Half olive green cloth with cream paper over boards; decorated and lettered in gilt on cover, lettered in gilt on spine. 10 inches tall. 124 pages.Corners and spine tips rubbed, Front endpaper has a piece missing.&n...bsp; Text clean and bright.End pages decorated with muses in art nouveau style. In this cryptic poem-play, James Whitcomb Riley conceived the roles he could play in life as islands flying in the night of his despair over the death of his beloved Nellie (Millikan) Cooley. The roles were those of a jester, a poet of kenotic themes, and lover of the dead beloved woman. Juxtaposed were Riley's intoxication as the Queen Crestillomeem (from "crestfallen" and "ill" with "me" backwards and forwards) and the possibility that drove his life - the possibility of becoming Krung, a King of American Poetry. The poem was obscure and so personal it had escaped the notice of those most informed of American literature until very recently
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The Flying Islands of the Night James Whitcomb RileyIllustrations Franklin Booth; 16 tipped in color plates with tissue guards on gray card stock.Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1913 Half olive green cloth with cream paper over boards; decorated and lettered in gilt on cover, lettered in gilt on spine. 10 inches tall. 124 pages.Corners and spine tips rubbed, Front endpaper has a piece missing.&n...bsp; Text clean and bright.End pages decorated with muses in art nouveau style. In this cryptic poem-play, James Whitcomb Riley conceived the roles he could play in life as islands flying in the night of his despair over the death of his beloved Nellie (Millikan) Cooley. The roles were those of a jester, a poet of kenotic themes, and lover of the dead beloved woman. Juxtaposed were Riley's intoxication as the Queen Crestillomeem (from "crestfallen" and "ill" with "me" backwards and forwards) and the possibility that drove his life - the possibility of becoming Krung, a King of American Poetry. The poem was obscure and so personal it had escaped the notice of those most informed of American literature until very recently
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