Will Carleton’s verses speak in the voices of Midwestern farm people: the old farmer asking a lawyer to draw up separation papers in Betsey and I Are Out, the aged mother turned out by her children in Over the Hill to the Poor-House, a husband deserted for a handsomer man, and a boy who wants to be a poet.
Hugely popular in the 1870s, a homely, affecting window on rural American life. Download the free EPUB.