New Poems and Variant Readings (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330970101 ISBN 13: 9781330970102

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from New Poems and Variant Readings

All Stevensonians owe a debt of gratitude to the Bibliophile Society of Boston for having discovered the following poems and given them light in a privately printed edition, thus making them known, in fact, to the world at large. Otherwise they would have remained scattered and hidden indefinitely in the hands of various collectors. They will be found extra ordinarily interesting in their self-revelation, and some, indeed, are so intimate and personal that one under stands why Stevenson withheld them from all eyes save his own. The love-poems in particular, though they are of very unequal merit, possess in common a really affecting sincerity. That Stevenson should have preserved these poems through all the vicissitudes of his wandering life shows how dearly he must have valued them; and shows, too, I think, beyond any contradiction, that he meant they should be ultimately published. Lloyd osbourne.

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About the Author

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins."

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330970101
• ISBN 13: 9781330970102
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 158