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James Thomas Fields (December 31, 1817 – April 24, 1881) was an American publisher, editor, and poet. His business, Ticknor and Fields, was a notable publishing house in 19th century Boston.
20 de abr. de 2024 · James T. Fields (born December 31, 1817, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S.—died April 24, 1881, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American author and leading publisher in the United States. At 14 Fields went to Boston, working as clerk in a bookseller’s shop.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
James Thomas Fields was an American publisher, editor, and poet. He is best known today for his close association with some of the leading literary figures of the American Renaissance.
After he was invited to join a major publishing firm, it soon became known as Ticknor and Fields, and now James T. Fields is celebrated in American National Biography as the foremost publisher of the literature in mid-nineteenth century America.
- Susan Ritchie
James Thomas Fields (né Field) was born on 31 December 1817, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the son of Michael Field, a ship captain, and Margaret (Beck) Field (married 6 March 1816), who raised “Jamie,” as the boy was called, as a single parent after the death of her husband at sea in 1820.
James Fields did not write a great deal of poetry but what he did write was witty and well crafted, his best known poems being the Owl-Critic and The Ballad of the Tempest, the tale of a providential escape from a potential shipwreck.
James Thomas Fields (1817 - 1881) In addition to his work as a publisher and essayist, Fields wrote poetry. A number of his works are collected in his book Ballads and Verses published in 1880.
