Author: Harvard University. Library. Widener Collection
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Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Author: Maggs Bros
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Author: Stevenson R. L. Stevenson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474472877
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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At last - a complete new edition of the poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson.During his lifetime Stevenson published A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), Penny Whistles, Underwoods (1887) and Ballads (1890). There were also various private press adventures in poetry with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne, and the posthumous Songs of Travel (1895), and New Poems (1918). This new edition contains these collections and also some of Stevenson's printed and manuscript poems that have never been published in any collection. The edition also identifies and restores various poems assembled by Stevenson in his Notebooks, many of which were mutilated by members of The Boston Bibliophile Society.The editor, Roger Lewis, has carefully studied Stevenson's manuscripts and letters, identifying many variants in individual poems and in orders of his collections, as well as in the editorial procedures of a succession of RLS's literary associates who claimed to be fulfilling his intentions or acting on his authority.The ordering of this edition will follow Stevenson's own final arrangement over unauthorised editorial rearrangments or strict considerations of chronology. Complete and accurate dates of composition and publication of individual poems and of collections are given wherever possible.Appendices include bibliographical description and location for manuscript and printed sources of all poems in the edition; 'poems in process' - how Stevenson sketched and revised during composition; notebooks - bibliographical history and significance; chronology and ordonnance of poetic units. There are also explanatory and textual notes. Scots poems are glossed and annotated using The Concise Scots Dictionary and web resources of the SNDA.A substantial introduction covers the publishing histories of individual volumes and literary influences, placing emphasis on Stevenson as a Scottish poet and arguing for his best verse to be considered

Author: Beverly Chew
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Author: Seymour de Ricci
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 678

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Author: Grolier Club
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: American Art Association
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 940

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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 932

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Author: Caroline McCracken-Flesher
Publisher: Modern Language Association
ISBN: 1603291857
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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Although Robert Louis Stevenson was a late Victorian, his work--especially Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde--still circulates energetically and internationally among popular and academic audiences and among young and old. Admired by Henry James, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jorge Luis Borges, Stevenson's fiction crosses the boundaries of genre and challenges narrow definitions of the modern and the postmodern. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," provides an introduction to the writer's life, a survey of the criticism of his work, and a variety of resources for the instructor. In part 2, "Approaches," thirty essays address such topics as Stevenson's dialogue with James about literature; his verse for children; his Scottish heritage; his wanderlust; his work as gothic fiction, as science fiction, as detective fiction; his critique of imperialism in the South Seas; his usefulness in the creative writing classroom; and how Stevenson encourages expansive thinking across texts, times, places, and lives.