Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850-1894)
Scottish novelist, poet, all-purpose writer, composer
If you had a
childhood and if you can read, likely you need no introduction to Robert Louis
Stevenson or some of his justly famous books:
Treasure Island.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde.
The Master of Ballantrae.
Did you know he was
a poet? A composer?
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| Stevenson at 7 |
Stevenson wrote
nearly 250 poems, some of them as lighthearted as this excerpt from “My
Shadow,” part of his “Child’s Garden of Verses” collection:
“I have a
little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.”
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.”
Stevenson played
piano and flageolet (a variety of the fipple flute, some similarities to a
recorder), and he wrote almost 125 original compositions for those instruments
and for clarinet, violin, guitar and mandolin.
He was a writer for
all seasons, and is widely popular among non-English-speaking readers. Around
the world, only 25 writers have been translated more than Stevenson.
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Carl Subber 2015 All rights reserved.
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