"No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over."

The love affairs of a biliomaniac

Eugene Field was born #OTD in 1850. Field first started publishing poetry in 1879, when his poem "Christmas Treasures" appeared in A Little Book of Western Verse. Over a dozen volumes of poetry followed & he became well known for his light-hearted poems for children. Field also published a number of short stories.

Books by Eugene Field at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/238

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