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Title: Collected Poems of Robert Service by Robert W. Service ISBN: 0-399-15015-3 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: For the People by The Man
Comment: This is possibly the finest poetry collection ever authored. This collection includes Service's best known poems from Songs of a Sourdough, including The Call of the Yukon, The Shooting of Dan McGrew, and my personal favourite, The Cremation of Sam McGee. If these poems don't have you booking a trip to the Yukon, nothing will.
Service was a man's man, living in northern Canada in White Horse and Dawson. This gives his poems a rarefied feeling that cannot be counterfeited. If Louis L'Amour had lived in northern Canada he would have been a soul mate to Robert W. Service. They both loved the outdoors and loved the men of the outdoors. Perhaps the most amazing thing about Robert W. Service is that his life story is even more compelling than his poetry. To read The Men that Don't Fit In is to get a glimpse of the man who fits.
This is poetry for the soul that requires no degree in literature to appreciate.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book of poetry by one of the world's finest poets
Comment:
They say that Robert Service was not a 'poet's poet'. The effete literati sneered at his work, and accused him of writing doggerel. But, the people have always loved his work. He was truly a 'people's poet.'
His first volume of poetry, The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses, sold out while it was still on the presses. Two of his ballads, The Shooting of Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee, are among the most memorized poems in history.
The Shooting of Dan McGrew alone made him a half-million dollars, which was a sizeable fortune in his time. He never had to do manual labor for his bread again, after its publication.
This volume of his work contains his best-known poems (those contained in both The Spell of the Yukon and his second, longer collection, Ballads of a Cheechako).
This is a book that you will not only delight in reading before the fire on a winter's evening or when that confining office job is getting you down, but it will also provide an endless source of conversation and amusement for your friends, many of whom will no doubt be able to recite large portions of some of his poems.
For Robert Service is, without a doubt, one of the best-loved of the world's poets. His poetry stands alongside that of Kipling, Coleridge and Poe in the public's affection.
Joseph (Joe) Pierre
author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
and other books
Rating: 5
Summary: Poetry for everyman!
Comment: I first came across Robert Service about third or fourth grade and the book was confiscated first by my teacher and then by my parents as "unsuitable". To me RS is the most suitable poet who ever put pen to paper - with no apology to Yeats or others.
All human life is to be found between these covers with very few duds. If ever you were stuck for a party piece, try "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" or "The Cremation of Sam McGee", either will generate a terrific response and with appropriate drama, a standing ovation.
Most of all, there are poems here which capture an era long gone and soon to be forgotten.
Robert Service will justifiably survive the majority of 20th century poets
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Title: Spell of the Yukon by Robert Service ISBN: 0399150110 Publisher: Dodd Mead Pub. Date: June, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Best of Robert Service by Robert Service ISBN: 0399550089 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: January, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Best Tales of the Yukon: Including the Classic "Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "the Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert W. Service, Tam Mossman ISBN: 0762414596 Publisher: Running Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Rudyard Kipling : Complete Verse by Rudyard Kipling ISBN: 038526089X Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 27 December, 1988 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Cremation of Sam McGee and Other Poems by Robert William Service ISBN: 0888392230 Publisher: Hancock House Pub Ltd Pub. Date: June, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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