Underwoods

"Of all my verse, like not a single line;

But like my title, for it is not mine."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Underwoods

Underwoods (1887), by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a collection of original poetry that Stevenson wrote during one of the most prolific periods of his career. Like his more famous collection, A Child's Garden of Verses, it was inspired by the author's own childhood and is written in both English and his native Scots.

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Underwoods

"Of all my verse, like not a single line;

But like my title, for it is not mine."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Underwoods

Underwoods (1887), by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a collection of original poetry that Stevenson wrote during one of the most prolific periods of his career. Like his more famous collection, A Child's Garden of Verses, it was inspired by the author's own childhood and is written in both English and his native Scots.

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Underwoods

Underwoods

by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Underwoods

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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"Of all my verse, like not a single line;

But like my title, for it is not mine."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Underwoods

Underwoods (1887), by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a collection of original poetry that Stevenson wrote during one of the most prolific periods of his career. Like his more famous collection, A Child's Garden of Verses, it was inspired by the author's own childhood and is written in both English and his native Scots.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781646795024
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Publication date: 01/01/1900
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894), Scottish writer and poet, was born in Edinburgh to a prosperous family of engineers but gave up the family profession first for law and then for literature. Among his prodigious output as a writer are: The Black Arrow (1884), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), Kidnapped (1886), and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).

Date of Birth:

November 13, 1850

Date of Death:

December 3, 1894

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Vailima, Samoa

Education:

Edinburgh University, 1875
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