# John Smith, U.S.A.

Author: Field, Eugene, 1850-1895

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12696

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=John+Smith%2C+U.S.A.+Field&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

From whatever point of view the character of Eugene Field is seen, genius--rare and quaint presents itself is childlike simplicity. That he was a poet of keen perception, of rare discrimination, all will admit. He was a humorist as delicate and fanciful as Artemus Ward, Mark Twain, Bill Nye, James Whitcomb Riley, Opie Read, or Bret Harte in their happiest moods. Within him ran a poetic vein, capable of being worked in any direction, and from which he could, at will, extract that which his imagination saw and felt most. That he occasionally left the child-world, in which he longed to linger, to wander among the older children of men, where intuitively the hungry listener follows him into h...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/john-smith-u-s-a-12696/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/john-smith-u-s-a-12696/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/john-smith-u-s-a-12696/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/john-smith-u-s-a-12696/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/john-smith-u-s-a-12696/chapters/5/index.md)