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About Eugene Field The Duel The Fly-Away Horse Jest 'Fore Christmas Little Boy Blue The Sugar-Plum Tree Wynken, Blynken, and Nod About Eugene Field For over 100 years, Eugene Field, who lived from 1850 to 1895, has been one of America's most loved children's poets. His most famous works include Little Boy Blue , Wynken, Blynken, and Nod and The Duel (The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat), all of ...

ST. LOUIS WALK OF FAME EUGENE FIELD Eugene Field, born at 634 South Broadway in St. Louis, became a reporter for the St. Louis Evening Journal in 1873. Over the next decade he developed the charming and witty style that would make him America's foremost columnist. The Chicago Morning News hired him in 1883 to write what I please on any subject I please. Although the resulting daily column, ...

Eugene Field was an unusual poet. He was one of the few poets who wrote only children's poetry. That is how he got his nickname, The Children's Poet. It all started September 2, 1850, at 634 South Broadway in Saint Louis. That's where and when Eugene Field was born. He had one brother named Roswell, who was one year younger than he, and a sister who died soon after her birth. He and his brother ...

Vol. 17. Later National Literature, Part II. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907 ...