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Eugene Field was an American poet and journalist, born in 1850 and known for his children's poetry, though he was reportedly displeased by this association. His work often appeared in newspaper columns, and he gathered journalistic humor for his early book, The Tribune Primer.1

Field's collection, A Little Book of Western Verse (1889), included various styles of poetry. It featured verses in a Pike County dialect, reminiscent of authors like Bret Harte, as well as poems for children written in an affected Old English dialect. This collection also contained translations and well-known poems such as "Little Boy Blue" and "Dutch Lullaby". Field passed away in 1895, and his collected works were published posthumously.1

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