City Ballads
Franklin Square, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1885.
Price: $20.00
Hardcover. Later printing. Illustrated. Gilt and black stamped brown cloth. Owner tag on front pastedown, faint white stain on front cover, corners and spine ends modestly worn, very good.
Item #245220
Will Carleton
birth name: Will Carleton
born: 10/21/1845
died: 12/18/1912
Biography
American poet who often wrote about rural life and whose 1873 book Farm Ballads is a Johnson Highspot of American Literature. His poetry, once quite popular and still remembered in his native Michigan, continues to provide many homespun quotes such as "To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell."more