Days and Dreams: Poems

Madison Cawein (March 23, 1865 – December 8, 1914) was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. After graduating from high school, Cawein worked in a pool hall in Louisville as a cashier in Waddill's New-market, which also served as a gambling house. He worked there for six years, saving his pay so he could return home to write. He wrote was thirty-six books and 1,500 poems. His writing presented Kentucky scenes in a language echoing Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. He soon earned the nickname the "Keats of Kentucky". He was popular enough that, by 1900, he told the Louisville Courier-Journal that his income from publishing poetry in magazines amounted to about $100 a month.

"Days and Dreams Poems" is a excellent collection of poems by Madison Cawein. Poems of this poet has always distinguished sensuality and emotion. Easy style and beautiful rhyme present in every poem by Madison Cawein. If you like interesting and entertaining books, you should read this.