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EUGENE FIELD (1850-1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 321 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EUGENE See also:FIELD (1850-1895)  , See also:American poet, was See also:born at St See also:Louis, See also:Missouri, on the 2nd of See also:September 185o . He spent his boyhood in See also:Vermont and See also:Massachusetts; studied for See also:short periods at See also:Williams and See also:Knox Colleges and the University of Missouri, but without taking a degree; and worked as a journalist on various papers, finally becoming connected with the See also:Chicago See also:News . A Little See also:Book of Profitable Tales appeared in Chicago in 1889 and in New See also:York the next See also:year; but See also:Field's See also:place in later American literature chiefly depends upon his poems of See also:Christmas-See also:time and childhood (of which " Little Boy See also:Blue and " A Dutch See also:Lullaby " are most widely known), because of their See also:union of obvious sentiment with fluent lyrical See also:form, His See also:principal collections of poems are: A Little Book of Western See also:Verse (1889); A Second Book of Verse (1892); With See also:Trumpet and See also:Drum (1892); and Love Songs of Childhood (1894) . Field died at Chicago on the 4th of See also:November 1895 . His See also:works were collected in ten volumes (1896), at New York . His See also:prose Love-affairs of a Bibliomaniac (1896) contains a Memoir by his See also:brother Roswell See also:Martin Field (b . 1851) . See also Slason See also:Thompson, See also:Eugene Field: a study in See also:heredity and contradictions (2 vols., New York, 1901) .

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