1913 Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson Antique Leather Poetry & Literature Book
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1913 Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson Antique Leather Poetry & Literature Book Poems By Robert Louis Stevenson Includes: Underwoods Ballads Songs Of Travel A Child's Garden Of Verses Published by Chatto & Windus: London 1913 In Premium Red Leather Bindings - 5 Band Spine - All Edges Gilt - Printed At The Florence Press In August 1913 "This handsome 1913 edition brings together four of Robert Louis Stevenson’s principal collections of verse: Underwoods, Ballads, Songs of Travel and the enduringly popular A Child’s Garden of Verses. Published in London by Chatto & Windus in association with Longmans, Green & Co., the volume offers an unusually broad survey of Stevenson’s poetry, ranging from reflective and deeply personal compositions to narrative ballads, poems of travel and childhood verse. Underwoods reveals the more intimate and contemplative side of Stevenson’s writing, addressing friendship, mortality, illness, courage and the passage of time. Ballads draws upon legend, history and the storytelling traditions of Scotland and the South Seas, while Songs of Travel reflects the author’s restless life abroad and his recurring meditations upon exile, memory, home and the traveller’s desire for freedom. The volume concludes with A Child’s Garden of Verses, Stevenson’s celebrated evocation of childhood imagination. Its poems transform bedrooms, gardens, toys, shadows and changing seasons into realms of adventure, capturing with remarkable tenderness the private world of childhood
- Publisher: Chatto & Windus: London
- Year: 1913
- Condition: Very Good
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