by 1890, riley had authored almost all his famous poems. the few poems he wrote during the 1890s were generally less well received by the public. as a solution, riley and his publishers began reusing poetry from other books and printing some of his earliest works. when "neighborly poems" was published in 1891, a critic working for the "chicago tribune" pointed out the use of riley's earliest works, commenting that he was using his popularity to push his crude earlier works onto the public only to make money. riley's newest poems published in the 1894 book "armazindy" received very negative reviews that referred to poems like "the little dog-woggy" and "jargon-jingle" as "drivel" and to riley as a "worn out genius". most of his growing number of critics suggested that he ignored the quality of the poems for the sake of making money.