Collected Poems (A Benn study : literature) [Hardcover]

Robert Service (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 758 pages
• Publisher: Ernest Benn Ltd; First edition. edition (February 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0510324002
• ISBN-13: 978-0510324001
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,030,079 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Breathtaking!, January 5, 2001

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Michael - See all my reviews

This review is from: Collected Poems of Robert Service (Hardcover)

Very few poets have captured the grandeur and beauty of the spirt of adventure like Robert Service.

In a day and age where refreshing verse and lyrics are hard to come by, a simple look into these pages reveals one of the most monumental works in modern poetry. Nothing quite excites the heart and stirs the soul like the works from Robert Service.

You will find your heart fluttering, your eyes moist and your mind wandering aimless in far away places as Service takes you there on a magic carpet ride of grandeur and adventure.

Inside you'll find a personal favorite, Service's Call of the Wild. If this doesn't move you, I'm not sure that anything will.

Service's poems could very well have been labeled chicken soup for the soul, well before those series of books under the same title.

Nothing short of magical.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the best intro to poetry for young readers, April 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Collected Poems of Robert Service (Hardcover)

my first introduction to poetry and has been the best experience for poetic appreciation i can imagine. in my formative years i thought that poetry was for longhairs only, but i found that i could really enjoy this lighthearted approach to this medium.unfortunatyely it is the only poetry i really enjoy.i have all his works and reread them year after year. i highly recommend robert w sertvice to everyone with a sense of adventure and/or whimsy start with the cremation of sam mcgee and youll be hooked just like i was thanks, robert for many hours of reading enjoyment.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Musings on a broken-spined hardcover, October 28, 2001

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Jeremiah Wuzza Bullfrog (Rapid City, SD, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Collected Poems of Robert Service (Hardcover)

My copy is nearing 25 yrs old and shows the wear and tear of living in backpacks, suitcases, briefcases and brown paper bags. This compendium of 6 different books of Service's work will take you from his Gold Rush Days of the Yukon, to his escape to the Bohemian Quarter in Paris to become a 'Serious Poet', and to his volunteering to become an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in the First World War. His ballads are remarkable in how they take you deeply into the the person's life for that brief time as you read. There is the lighthearted comedy he is known for with "The Cremation of Sam McGee", as well as the first person accounts of the unimaginable horrors and uplifting glories of battle in the trenches. Service wrote for the everyday working man, in everything he is utterly approachable and unpretentious. I will confess, as does he, this is "lowbrow stuff", but it is mighty satisfying.