The Holy Cross and Other Tales (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781518720444)

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

Author: Eugene Field
ISBN-10: 1518720447
ISBN-13: 9781518720444
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2015
Pages: 94
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.19d