New Poems and Variant Readings

Stevenson, Robert Louis

ISBN 10: 1406713880 / ISBN 13: 9781406713886

Published by Hesperides Press, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Poems and Variant Readings
• Publisher: Hesperides Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1406713880
• ISBN 13: 9781406713886
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Like New

About this title

Synopsis

This volume contains an extensive collection of poems by the famous Scottish writer Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson. This beautiful collection of poesy will appeal to a wide range of poetry lovers, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Stevenson’s masterful work. The poems contained herein include: “Prayer”, “Lo! In Thine Honest Eyes I Read”, “Though Deep Indifference Should Drowse”, “My Heart, When First The Blackbird Sings”, “I Dreamed of Forest Alleys Fair”, “St. Martin’s Summer”, “Dedication”, and many more. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850 - 1894) was a seminal Scottish novelist, poet and essayist. Other notable works by this author include "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". We are republishing this vintage book now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

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."