1913 Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson Antique Leather Poetry & Literature Book

Underwoods reveals the more intimate and contemplative side of Stevenson's writing, addressing friendship, mortality, illness, courage and the passage of time. Ballads draws upon legend, history and the storytelling traditions of Scotland and the South Seas, while Songs of Travel reflects the author's restless life abroad and his recurring meditations upon exile, memory, home and the traveller's desire for freedom.

The volume concludes with A Child's Garden of Verses, Stevenson's celebrated evocation of childhood imagination. Its poems transform bedrooms, gardens, toys, shadows and changing seasons into realms of adventure, capturing with remarkable tenderness the private world of childhood. First published in 1885, the collection has remained among the best-loved works of nineteenth-century children's literature and includes such familiar pieces as "The Land of Counterpane," "My Shadow" and "The Swing."