Author : Eugene Field
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 22,44 MB
Release : 2016-08-14
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ISBN : 9781537083964
Book Description
Love-Songs of Childhood by Eugene Field - Eugene Field, Sr. (September 2, 1850 - November 4, 1895) was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. He was known as the "poet of childhood." everal of his poems were set to music with commercial success. Many of his works were accompanied by paintings from Maxfield Parrish. His former home in St. Louis is now a museum.[12] The Eugene Field House contains many of Field's mementoes, including original manuscripts, books, furniture, personal effects, and some of the toys that inspired his poems. A memorial to him, a statue of the "Dream Lady" from his poem "Rock-a-by-Lady," was erected in 1922 at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. There is also a park and fieldhouse named in his honor in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood. In nearby Oak Park, Illinois, another park is named in his honor. A statue of Wynken, Blynken and Nod adorns Washington Park, near Field's Denver home. Before his death, he wrote and published an anonymous work about a 12-year-old boy being seduced by a woman in her 30's. It was titled "Only a Boy'. In the 1920's, George Jean Nathan recalled it as a popular forbidden work among those coming of age at the turn of the century, along with 'Fanny Hill' and 'Green Girls of Paris'. It was published by Grove Press in 1968 with the real author's name.