Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) [Paperback]

Robert Louis Stevenson (Author), Angus Calder (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 1999 | Series: Penguin Classics

The author of Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is known all over the world as a master storyteller, yet his achievements as a poet have been strangely neglected. This book reveals how much we have been missing. Fascinated by a wide variety of verse techniques, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) produced superb work in styles ranging from folk ballads to witty conversational offerings for his friends. Pieces using Robert Burns's stanza form and dialect rank among the most attractive Scots poetry of the nineteenth century. Angus Calder has brought together many uncollected poems, substantial extracts from the published collections and the complete Child's Garden of Verse (1885), an extraordinarily evocative picture of childhood loneliness, visions and fears. Far more than in his famous novels, it was here that Stevenson felt able to give direct expression to his deepest feelings about friendship, love and nostalgia; this definitive anthology captures a compelling and utterly individual voice.

Editorial Reviews

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De Ligurra
Epitaphium Erotii
Alcaics: To H. F. Brown
At The Seaside
Auntie's Skirts
Bed In Summer
The Bour-tree Den
Brasheanna; Sonnets On Peter Brash, A Publican: 1
Brasheanna; Sonnets On Peter Brash, A Publican: 2
Brasheanna; Sonnets On Peter Brash, A Publican: 3
Brasheanna; Sonnets On Peter Brash, A Publican: 4
Brasheanna; Sonnets On Peter Brash, A Publican: 5
The Child Alone: 1. The Unseen Playmate
The Child Alone: 2. My Ship And I
The Child Alone: 3. My Kingdom
The Child Alone: 4. Picture-books In Winter
The Child Alone: 5. My Treasures
The Child Alone: 6. Block City
The Child Alone: 7. The Land Of Story-books
The Child Alone: 8. Armies In The Fire
The Child Alone: 9. The Little Land
Christmas At Sea
The Cow
The Cruel Mistress
Dedication
Duddingstone
Envoy: 1. To Willie And Henrietta
Envoy: 2. To My Mother
Envoy: 3. To Auntie
Envoy: 4. To Minnie
Envoy: 5. To My Name-child
Envoy: 6. To Any Reader
Epistle To Charles Baxter
Escape At Bedtime
Fairy Bread
The Family: 1. Mother And Daughter
The Family: 2. The Daughter, Teuila, Native Name For Adorner
The Family: 3
The Family: 4
The Family: 6
The Family: 7
The Family: 8
Farewell To The Farm
The Fine Pacific Islands; Heard In A Public House At Rotherhithe
Fixed Is The Doom; And To The Last Of Years
Flower God, God Of The Spring, Beautiful, Bountiful
Foreign Children
Foreign Lands
From A Railway Carriage
Garden Days: 2. Nest Eggs
Garden Days: 3. The Flowers
Garden Days: 5. The Dumb Soldier
Garden Days: 7. The Gardener
Garden Days: 8. Historical Associations
Good And Bad Children
A Good Boy
A Good Play
The Hayloft
Heather Ale: A Galloway Legend
I Am A Hunchback
I Saw Red Evening Through The Rain
I Sit Up Here At Midnight
I Who All The Winter Through
John Cavalier
Keepsake Mill
The Lamplighter
The Land Of Counterpane
The Land Of Nod
Last Night We Had A Thunderstorm In Style
The Light-keeper
Lines For H.f. Brown
A Little Before Me, And Hark
Looking Forward
Looking-glass River
Marching Song
The Moon
Moral Emblems I: 1
Moral Emblems I: 2
Moral Emblems I: 3. A Peak In Darien
Moral Emblems I: 4
Moral Emblems I: 5
Moral Emblems Ii: 1
Moral Emblems Ii: 2
Moral Emblems Ii: 3
Moral Emblems Ii: 4
Moral Emblems Ii: 5
My Bed Is A Boat
My Brain Swims Empty And Light
My Shadow
Ne Sit Ancillae Tibi Amor Pudori
Night And Day
North-west Passage: 1. Good Night
North-west Passage: 2. Shadow March
North-west Passage: 3. In Port
Now Bare To The Beholder's Eye
O Dull, Cold Northern Sky
Pirate Story
Rhymes To W. E. Henley (1)
Rhymes To W. E. Henley (2)
Rhymes To W. E. Henley (3)
Rivers And Winds Among The Twisted Hills
Robin And Ben: Or, The Pirate And The Apothecary
Since Years Ago For Evermore
Singing
Song At Dawn
The Song Of Rahero; A Tale Of Tahiti: 1. The Slaying Of Tamatea
The Song Of Rahero; A Tale Of Tahiti: 2. The Venging Of Tamatea
The Song Of Rahero; A Tale Of Tahiti: 3. Rahero
The Song Of Ruhero; A Tale Of Tahiti: Dedication
The Song Of The Sword Of Alan, Fr. Kidnapped
Songs Of Travel: 1. The Vagabond
Songs Of Travel: 11
Songs Of Travel: 12. We Have Loved Of Yore
Songs Of Travel: 14. Mater Triumphans
Songs Of Travel: 15
Songs Of Travel: 16
Songs Of Travel: 17. To The Tune Of Wandering Willie
Songs Of Travel: 18. Winter
Songs Of Travel: 20
Songs Of Travel: 21. To Sidney Colvin
Songs Of Travel: 23
Songs Of Travel: 26. If This Were Faith
Songs Of Travel: 28. To The Muse
Songs Of Travel: 3. Youth And Love: 2
Songs Of Travel: 35. To My Old Familiars
Songs Of Travel: 36
Songs Of Travel: 37. To S.c.
Songs Of Travel: 39. The Woodman
Songs Of Travel: 4. The Unforgotten: 1
Songs Of Travel: 40. Tropic Rain
Songs Of Travel: 43. The Last Sight
Songs Of Travel: 44
Songs Of Travel: 45. To S.r. Crockett
Songs Of Travel: 46. Evensong
Songs Of Travel: 5
Songs Of Travel: 6
Songs Of Travel: 8
Songs Of Travel: 9
Sonnet: 3
Spring-song
St Martin's Summer
Storm
Stormy Nights
Summer Sun
The Sun's Travels
The Swing
System
Tales Of Arabia
A Thought
Ticonderoga; A Legend Of The West Highlands
Time To Rise
To Alison Cunningham; From Her Boy
To Charles Baxter
To Charles Baxter (in Lallan)
To Charles Baxter (in Lallan), On The Death Of ... John Adam
To Henry James
To Katherine De Mattos
To Mrs. Macmarland
To My Wife; Found In The Manuscript Of 'weir Of Hermiston' (1)
To Ottilie
To Sydney
Travel
Underwoods: Book 1: 1. Envoy
Underwoods: Book 1: 10. To N. V. De G. S.
Underwoods: Book 1: 12. To Mrs. Will H. Low
Underwoods: Book 1: 13. To H. F. Brown (written During A ... Sickness)
Underwoods: Book 1: 15. Et Tu In Arcadia Vixisti
Underwoods: Book 1: 16. To W. E. Henley
Underwoods: Book 1: 18. The Mirror Speaks
Underwoods: Book 1: 26. The Sick Child
Underwoods: Book 1: 3. The Canoe Speaks
Underwoods: Book 1: 30. A Portrait
Underwoods: Book 1: 35. Skerrymore: The Parallel
Underwoods: Book 1: 37
Underwoods: Book 1: 5. The House Beautiful
Underwoods: Book 1: 7. To A Gardener
Underwoods: Book 1: 8. The Counterblast - 1886
Underwoods: Book 1: 9. The Counterblast Ironical
Underwoods: Book 1: 9. To K. De M.
Underwoods: Book 2: 1. The Maker To Posterity
Underwoods: Book 2: 10. Their Laureate To An Academy Class Dinner Club
Underwoods: Book 2: 11. Embro Hie Kirk
Underwoods: Book 2: 12. The Scotsman's Return From Abroad
Underwoods: Book 2: 13
Underwoods: Book 2: 14. My Conscience!
Underwoods: Book 2: 15. To Doctor John Brown
Underwoods: Book 2: 16. The Dearest Friends Are The Auldest Friends
Underwoods: Book 2: 2. Ille Terrarum
Underwoods: Book 2: 3. When Aince Aprile Has Fairly Come
Underwoods: Book 2: 4
Underwoods: Book 2: 5. A Lowden Sabbath Morn
Underwoods: Book 2: 6. The Spaewife
Underwoods: Book 2: 7. The Blast - 1875
Underwoods: Book One: 21. Requiem
Where Go The Boats?
The Whole Day Thro', In Contempt And Pity
The Wind
Windy Nights
Wintertime
Young Night Thought
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. Stevenson is well known for his novels of historical adventure, including Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped (1886) and Catriona (1893).

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Classics (February 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140435484
• ISBN-13: 978-0140435481
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #261,598 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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