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The Holy Cross and Other Tales

The Holy Cross and Other Tales

Field, Eugene

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1518720447
ISBN13: 9781518720444
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 1 2015
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
In paying a tribute to the mingled mirth and tenderness of Eugene Field-the poet of whose going the West may say, He took our daylight with him-one of his fellow journalists has written that he was a jester, but not of the kind that Shakespeare drew in Yorick. He was not only, -so the writer implied, -the maker of jibes and fantastic devices, but the bard of friendship and affection, of melodious lyrical conceits; he was the laureate of children-dear for his Wynken, Blynken and Nod and Little Boy Blue; the scholarly book-lover, withal, who relished and paraphrased his Horace, who wrote with delight a quaint archaic English of his special devising; who collected rare books, and brought out his own Little Books of Western Verse and Profitable Tales in high-priced limited editions, with broad margins of paper that moths and rust do not corrupt, but which tempts bibliomaniacs to break through and stea

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