The complete online text of A Little Book of Western Verse by Eugene Field.

Termed "the first of the columnists," Eugene Field is best known today as the poet of children. However, his poems and stories originally appeared in print in columns written for newspapers in St. Louis, St. Joseph, and Kansas City, Missouri; Denver; and...

Highly regarded by his contemporaries as a poet, journalist, humorist, and raconteur, Eugene Field also built a reputation for himself as a bibliophile--although he did not accumulate a notable collection of books or establish a great library. His signif...

Eugene Field was a popular humorist and newspaperman often called the "Poet of Childhood." Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Roswell M. and Frances Reed Field, both of New England ancestry, Field claimed two birthdates--2 and 3 September 1850--in later yea...

The Oxford Book of Comic Verse, edited by John Gross (Oxford, 512 pp., $25) COMIC verse, as a form, has probably been around almost as long as verse itself; I will concede a slight seniority to love poems. So it is a...

Jimmy Stewart never set out to be a writer. Being an American icon is enough of a job, and besides, he never could spell. All he ever wanted to do was record a few memorable events in his life and see if he could...