Author: Charles Scribners

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-22

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780484465274

Excerpt from Prose and Verse of Eugene Field: The Holy Cross and Others Tales For my own part, I would select Yorick as the very forecast, in imaginative literature, of our various Eugene. Surely Shakespeare conceived the mad rogue of Elsinore as made up of grave and gay, of wit and gentle ness, and not as a mere clown or jig maker. It is true that when Field put on his cap and bells, he too was wont to set the table on a roar, as the feasters at a hun dred tables, from Casey's Table d'hote to the banquets of the opulent East, now rise to testify. But Shakespeare plainly re veals, concerning Yorick, that mirth was not his sole attribute, that his motley covered the sweetest nature and the tenderest heart. It could be no otherwise with one who loved and comprehended childhood and whom the children loved. And what does Hamlet say P He hath borne me upon his back a thousand times Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft! Of what is he thinking but of his boyhood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.