The introduction suggests Field's work balances themes of the "child-world" with appeals to "older children of men." How does the table of contents provide evidence for both aspects of his writing, or perhaps challenge this tidy categorization?

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f being worked in any direction, and from which he could, at will, extract that which his imagination saw and felt most. That he occasionally left the child-world, in which he longed to linger, to wander among the older children of men, where intuitively the hungry listener follows him into his Temple of Mirth, all should rejoice, for those who knew him not, can while away the moments imbibing the genius of his imagination in the poetry and prose here presented. Though never possessing an intimate acquaintanceship with Field, owing largely to the disparity in our ages, still there existed a…

worthy. Born in the same city, both students in the same college, engaged at various times in newspaper work both in St. Lows and Chicago, residents of the same ward, with many mutual friends, it is not surprising that I am able to say of him that "the world is better off that he lived, not in gold and silver or precious jewels, but in the bestowal of priceless truths, of which the possessor of this book becomes a benefactor of no mean share of his estate." Every lover of Field, whether of the songs of childhood or the poems that lend mirth to the out-pouring of his poetic nature, will…

10 Chicago Newspaper Life 112 The Mighty West 114 April 116 Report of the Baseball Game 118 The Rose 120 Kansas City vs. Detroit 121 Me and Bilkammle 122 To the Detroit Baseball Club 124 A Ballad of Ancient Oaths 125 An Old Song Revised 128 The Grateful Patient 130 The Beginning and the End 131 Clare Market 133 Uncle Ephraim 135 Thirty-Nine 138 Horace I., 18 141 Three Rineland Drinking Songs 143 The Three Tailors 147 Morning Hymn 150 Doctors 151 Ben Apfelgarten 155 In Holland 158 This work was published before January 1, 1931, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at…

← Hoosier Lyrics ( 1905 ) by Eugene Field → 5061842 Hoosier Lyrics 1905 Eugene Field ​ H oosier L yrics ​ HOOSIER LYRIC S by EUGENE FIELD AUTHOR OF THE CLINK OF THE ICE, JOHN SMITH, U. S. A, IN WINK-A-WAY-LAND, ETC. M. A. DONOHUE & COMPANY CHICAGO, ILL . ​ SELECTED WORKS of EUGENE FIELD Uniform with this volume The Clink of the Ice Hoosier Lyrics In Wink-a-Way Land John Smith, U.S. A. Four volumes, boxed, $3.00 Single volumes, 75 cents, postpaid M. A. DONOHUE & CO. 701-727 S.DEARBORN ST. CHICAGO Copyright, 1905 M. A. Donohue & Co. ​ INTRODUCTION. From whatever point of view the character of…

G. C. 51 To Dr. F. W. R. 52 Horace's Ode to "Lydia" Roche 54 A Paraphrase, Circa 1715 56 A Paraphrase, Ostensibly by Dr. I. W. 57 Horace I., 27 58 Heine's "Widow or Daughter" 59 Horace II., 20 60 ​ Horace's Spring Poem , Odes I., 4 62 Horace to Ligurine , Odes IV., 10 64 Horace on His Muscle , Epode VI 65 Horace to Maecenas , Odes III., 29 66 Horace in Love Again , Epode XI. 68 "Good-By—God Bless You!" 70 Horace , Epode XIV. 72 Horace I., 23 74 A Paraphrase 75 A Paraphrase by Chaucer 76 Horace I., 5 77 Horace I., 20 78 Envoy 78 Horace II., 7 79 Horace I., 11 81 Horace I., 13 82 Horace IV., 1…