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Title: The Best of Robert Service by Robert Service ISBN: 0-7624-1631-9 Publisher: Courage Publishing Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.98 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A brilliant volume and a must-have for poetry fans!
Comment: I seriously doubt that anybody out there who has passed at least the eighth grade has not heard, at least once in his or her life, "The Cremation of Sam McGee." That poem enough warrants the purchase of a Robert W. Service book, as any home library should not be without that classic poem of North American culture.
This book, however, has a lot more to offer than solely the "most memorized poem" of the English language.
Though it does not state it in the information about this volume, this book contains the complete poems of "The Spell of the Yukon" and "Ballads of a Cheechako." Either of these volumes (in hardback) alone will cost about thirteen dollars (at least at your local bookstore), but this hardbound edition offers much more.
The Kinsey photographs which help fill these pages give us all a more brilliant picture of life in the Yukon gold rush era, and help paint a canvas along with the verses of Robert Service in a cooperative rarely seen in the medium of poetry. Whereas most "gift" or "coffee table" editions of literature, the pictures rarely enhance and often detract from the visual imagery of the poetry. This volume is quite the opposite.
At the price, this is one of the best bargains you will find on Amazon.com. The artistry of the binding and design of the pages would warrant that this book retail at twice the price it does.
I recommend anybody with any interest purchase this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't miss reading his poems about WWI
Comment: Often people read Robert Service and only read his stories about Alaska and the Yukon. For moving poetry about WWI and the loss of his brother, read all the way to the end, very moving.
Rating: 5
Summary: An astonishing bargain!
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 not only all of his best-known poems (those contained in both The Spell of the Yukon and his second, longer collection, Ballads of a Cheechako), but also many of the photographs of the famous Northwestern photographers, Clarke and Clarence Kinsey -- famous not only for the photography of the Klondike gold rush, but also for Clarke's later photographs of Pacific Northwest logging, some of which were included also in my father's book, When Timber Stood Tall.
This is a high quality coffee table 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 display well on your coffee table, where it will draw friends' attention like a magnet.
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 Pierre
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Title: Collected Poems of Robert Service by Robert W. Service ISBN: 0399150153 Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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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 ISBN: 0762414596 Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Spell of the Yukon by R. Service ISBN: 0399150110 Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 June, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Cremation of Sam McGee and Other Poems by Robert W. Service ISBN: 0888392230 Publisher: Hancock House Publishing Pub. Date: 01 January, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems by Rudyard Kipling ISBN: 0486264718 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 August, 1990 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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