The complete online text of Christmas Tales and Christmas 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...

Now that the Christmas season is about to begin, video stores are astir with taped tidings of the season waiting to be taken home for the night. Most of the offerings, in fact, are priced to sell for year-round injections of the holiday spirit;...

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