Clarks Field (The Collected Works of Robert Herrick)

1914. Herrick wrote realistic social novels about the conflict between professional and personal values in American capitalistic society. Clark's Field The other day I happened to be in the town where I was born and not far from the commonplace house in the humbler quarter of the town where my parents were living at the time of my birth, half a century and more ago. I am not fond of my native town, although I lived in the place until I was seventeen or eighteen years old. It was never a distinguished spot and seems to have gained nothing as yet from having been my birthplace. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.