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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 1 1 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
I, Chap. XXIII. tales, and miscellaneous paragraphs, later collected to form A little Book of Western verse (1889), A little Book of profitable tales (1889), and other volumes. He was still in the prime of life and at the height of his celebrity as a household poet, humorist, and lecturer, when he wrote in the assumed character of a veteran bibliomaniac: I am aweary and will rest a little while; lie thou there, my pen, for a dream—a pleasant dream—calleth me away. A few weeks later (4 November, 1895) death visited the writer as he slept. Field's best known pieces of verse and prose exploiting sentimental and pathetic themes, especially Christmas festivities and the deaths of little children, emerge from a background of humorous writing illustrated by the rank and file of his contributions to Sharps and Flats. The waggery of his natural bent finds unmixed expression in the early and unsuccessful book, Culture's Garland; being Memoranda of the gradual rise of literature, art, mus