Editing Eugene Field (section)

==Legacy==

Several of his poems were set to music with commercial success by composers such as [[Isabel Stewart North]],<ref>{{Cite book|last=North|first=Isabel Stewart|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=blYBGwAACAAJ|title=In the Firelight|date=1893|publisher=Chicago Music|language=en}}</ref> [[Gertrude Ross]],<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LHQ9AQAAMAAJ&dq=gertrude+ross+composer&pg=PA3 |title=Pacific Coast Musical Review |date=1913 |publisher=A. Metzger |language=en}}</ref> and [[Ella May Dunning Smith]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ella May Smith - Vocal Texts and Translations at the LiederNet Archive|url=https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_settings.html?ComposerId=14004|access-date=2022-02-15|website=www.lieder.net}}</ref> Many of his works were accompanied by paintings from [[Maxfield Parrish]]. 

His childhood home in [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]] is now a museum.<ref>Walker, Patricia Chambers, and Graham Thomas (1999). ''Directory of Historic House Museums in the United States''. Rowman Altamira, p. 196. {{ISBN|0-7425-0344-5}}</ref> The Eugene Field House contains many of Field's mementos, including original manuscripts, books, furniture, personal effects, and some of the toys that inspired his poems.<ref name=":0" />

Field has his own star on the [[St. Louis Walk of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/?view=achievement |title=St. Louis Walk of Fame Inductees |last=St. Louis Walk of Fame |publisher=stlouiswalkoffame.org |access-date=25 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031162946/http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/?view=achievement |archive-date=31 October 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2016, Field was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://chicagoliteraryhof.org/inductees/profile/eugene-field |title=Eugene Field |website=Chicago Literary Hall of Fame |language=en |access-date=2017-10-05}}</ref>

As a memorial to Field, a statue of the Dream Lady from his poem "Rock-a-by-Lady" was erected in 1922 at the [[Lincoln Park Zoo]] in Chicago.  There is also a park and fieldhouse named in his honor in Chicago's [[Albany Park, Chicago|Albany Park]] neighborhood. In nearby [[Oak Park, Illinois]], another park is named in his honor; a sign there offers a brief biography.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eugene Field Park Historical Marker |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=230700 |access-date=2025-01-30 |website=www.hmdb.org |language=en}}</ref>  A statue of Wynken, Blynken and Nod adorns Washington Park, near Field's Denver home.  Another statue of Wynken, Blynken and Nod sits in the center of the town square (called "the green" by locals) in Wellsboro, Pa.

Numerous elementary schools throughout the Midwest are named for him, e.g. Eugene Field Elementary School in [[Chicago, Illinois]]; [[Wheeling, Illinois]]; [[Rock Island, Illinois]]; [[Elmhurst, Illinois]]; [[Normal, Illinois]];  [[Park Ridge, Illinois]]; [[Maryville, Missouri]]; [[St. Joseph, Missouri]]; [[Hannibal, Missouri]]; [[Columbia, Missouri]]; [[Mexico, Missouri]]; [[Neosho, Missouri]]; [[Poplar Bluff, Missouri]]; [[Springfield, Missouri]]; [[Webb City, Missouri]]; [[Manhattan, Kansas]]; [[Ottawa, Kansas]]; [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]]; and formerly in [[Muncie, Indiana]] (closed in 1973).

Other schools named after Field are located in [[Littleton, Colorado]]; [[Mitchell, South Dakota]];[[Sioux Falls, South Dakota]]; [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]]; [[Altus, Oklahoma]]; [[Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]]; [[Hugo, Oklahoma]]; [[Beaumont, Texas]]; [[Houston, Texas]]; [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]]; [[Mesa, Arizona]];  [[Pasadena, California]]; [[San Diego, California]]; and [[Silverton, Oregon]]. 

One of the branches of the [[Denver Public Library]] near Field's Denver home is named after him, as is an apartment building in [[Denver]]'s Poet's Row. A dormitory in the Orchard Hill residential area at the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]] also bears Field's name.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Field, Eugene |url=https://www.umass.edu/physicalplant/field-eugene |publisher=Physical Plant, [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]] |access-date=18 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hewitt |first=Raymond G. |date=12 January 1968 |title=Facts and Figures 1967 University of Massachusetts Amherst |url=https://www.umass.edu/uair/sites/default/files/publications/factbooks/Factbook_1967.pdf |publisher=Office of Institutional Studies, [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]] |page=187 |access-date=18 May 2023}}</ref>

Before his death, Field wrote and published an anonymous work about a 12-year-old boy being seduced by a woman in her 30s. It was titled "Only a Boy". In the 1920s, American drama critic and magazine editor [[George Jean Nathan]] recalled it as a popular forbidden work among those coming of age at the turn of the century, along with ''[[Fanny Hill]]'' and "Green Girls of Paris".{{clarify|What is the "Green Girls of Paris"?|date=February 2017}} It was published by [[Grove Press]] in 1968 with the real author's name.