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Lifetime: 1857 - 1894 Passed: ≈ 130 years ago

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Benjamin King

Books by Benjamin King

Summer's Afternoon Cover image

Summer's Afternoon

Poetry Fiction Non-Fiction Essays
Love Beauty Nature Time Reflection Life Nostalgia Memory Summer Peace Seasons Poetry Sorrow Joy Tranquility Emotions Melancholy Afternoon Passing Feelings

As the summer days wind down, LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of A Summer’s Afternoon by Benjamin King. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 29th, 2007.

Ben King's Verse Cover image

Ben King's Verse

Poetry Humour Biography
Poetry Chicago Verse Famous Biographies Michigan American humor Humorist Collected works Post-humous McGovern Read Quoted

This volume contains a collection of Benjamin King's poems, published after his unexpected death in 1894. King was a renowned American humorist whose work continues to be referenced and quoted today. The book, published in Chicago, achieved remarkabl...