21. Robert Service Main (18741958) Canadian Poet Bard of the Yukon. Robert William Service was bornin Lancashire, England on January 16, 1874. He received his education at the http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/carcross/dawsoncity/robertservice.htm

Canadian Poet...Bard of the Yukon Robert William Service was born in Lancashire, England on January 16, 1874. He received his education at the University of Glasgow. He worked at various jobs in California and B.C. until he was posted by the Canadian Bank of Commerce to go work in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory in1894. He arrived during the Klondike era, amidst the height of the Gold Rush and while there, published his most notable piece "The Cremation of Sam McGee" which won him immediate fame. He left Yukon for Paris in 1912 and remained in France for most of the rest of his life. Service produced more than twenty verse collections and romances, including Ballads of a Cheechako, and Bar-Room Ballads. In 1946, he finally retired to the Riviera. He died in Lancieux, France September 11, 1958. The following obituary appeared in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph of Sept. 16, 1958: A GREAT POET died last week in Lancieux, France, at the age of 84. He was not a poet's poet. Fancy-Dan dilletantes will dispute the description "great." He was a people's poet. To the people he was great. They understood him, and knew that any verse carrying the by-line of Robert W. Service would be a lilting thing, clear, clean and power-packed, beating out a story with a dramatic intensity that made the nerves tingle.

22. Service Poetry of Robert William Service, 18741958, a page in Electronic Library Poetrypearls of English to Russian Poetry Classics, Collection of Yacov and http://members.tripod.com/poetry_pearls/ePoets/Service.htm

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23. Author Robert W Service, From The Oldpoetry Poetry Archive I was from Great Britain, and I lived from 18741958. Robert William Servicewas born in Lancashire, England on January 16, 1874 to a Scottish bank http://oldpoetry.com/authors/Robert W Service

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24. Ballads Of A Cheechako By Robert W. Service (Robert William) EBook By BookRags Ballads Of A Cheechako eBook by Robert W. Service (Robert William) by Robert W.Service Britishborn Canadian Poet —­ 1874-1958. http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/259/

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25. Literature British Arts Scott, Sir Walter (17711832) Novelist; Service, Robert William (1874-1958)English born Canadian Poet; Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692) Dramatist and Poet http://www.britisharts.co.uk/su.htm

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26. A Wild Garden Of Verse - Service Robert William Service (18741958), The Bard of the Yukon , was born to Scottishparents in Preston, Lancashire, but made his name - and his considerable http://www.noggs.dsl.pipex.com/pa/service.htm

Robert W Service The Writing of Frank McHugh A few of the class were imbibing a jar in the hostelry over the road. The incompetent youth who was tending the bar made sure that the Muzak flowed. Back of the lounge they were feeding coins to a box that would test what you knew, And one empty chair showed a lady had gone to the room that’s known as the loo. Then out of the darkness, and into the joint, a venue with less class than most, There stumbled a man, unshaven and gaunt, with the haunted look of a ghost. And he reeled to the bar, and clutched at it hard, and slammed down a fifty pound note And he called for strong drink for any poor soul, be they man, mouse or moll, who wrote she just stood there, with a cold gimlet stare that skewered his heart through and through, Till inside something cracked and she headed right back to the room that’s known as the loo. There’s a God-awful place - the stranger went on - you’ll remember the place that I mean, For you’re writers like me, and we all of us know it’s a place every writer has been, Where the days are dead dull, and the landscapes are flat, and the nights are forbidding and dark, And nothing of interest has ever occurred since the day Noah scuppered the ark, And plots never thicken, but every twist thins them to tedious and separate bits, And every line lacks but a word to be right, and no word in the dictionary fits. We’ll I’ve been there too, but I yomped right on through, until I emerged the far side, Where another land lies, full of honey and milk, where your every desire’s satisfied, Where your novels are

27. Some Poetry Service, Robert W. (18741958). The Cremation of Sam McGee. Shakespeare,William (1564-1616). Assorted Quotations Farewell! a Long Farewell . http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/webstuff/poetry/poems.html

Ammons, A. R. (1926-2001) Auto Mobile First Carolina Said-Song Needs Second Carolina Said-Song Anonymous Abort, Retry, Ignore? In Peterborough Churchyard Sumer Is Icumen In The Virtues of Carnation Milk Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888) Dover Beach Brooke, Rupert A Letter to a Live Poet Clouds ... Waikiki Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878) Thanatopsis Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824) Rome The Sea Cleghorn, Sarah N. (1876-) The Golf Links Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1839) Kubla Khan Cummings, E. E. (1894-1963) Chanson Innocente, I I sing of Olaf Me Up At Does Nobody Loses All the Time ... What If a Much of a Which of a Wind de Vries, Peter (1910-) Bacchanal Dobson, Austin (1840-1921) Ballad of Imitation With Pipe and Flute Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge [Lewis Carroll] (1832-1898) Jabberwocky Donne, John (1573-1631) A Lecture Upon the Shadow Confined Love Death, Be Not Proud Seek True Religion! ... Woman's Constancy Dowson, Ernest (1867-1900) Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam Dryden, John (1631-1700) The Crown Prince of Dullness Dugan, Alan (1923-) On a Seven-Day Diary Eberhart, Richard (1904-)

28. The Poets. S-; Service, Robert Wm. (1874-1958) A Canadian poet, Service s works areSongs of a Sourdough Yeats was to edit the works of William Blake in 1893. http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Literary/BiosPoets.htm

The Poets: Click the letter and you will be brought to the beginning of the appropriate biography list. A B C D ... N O P Q R S ... W X Y Z (Click on letter to go to index.) -A- Arnold, Matthew Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, Arnold was, through the years, 1857-67, the professor of Poetry at Oxford. I have put up three of my favourites, " Dover Beach Shakespeare " and " The Scholar-Gipsy (Click on letter to go to index.) -B- Blake, William Blake was a poet, a painter and an engraver. Chambers writes that Blake's poetry "include some of the purest lyrics in the English language and express his ardent belief in the freedom of the imagination and his hatred of rationalism and materialism Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Suffered from a childhood spinal injury and was "doomed to invalidism and seclusion from the world" until she met Robert with whom she eloped, much to the consternation of her father. The Brownings fled to Italy, and there they spent the rest of their days (at least Elizabeth did). The Browning romance was celebrated in Rudolf Besier's The Barretts of Wimpole Street . Her poems run deep with religious feeling, with her love of Italy, and her love of Robert.

29. Rikai Language Portal Map WordMap Robert William Service (n). Canadian writer (born in England) who wrote aboutlife in the Yukon Territory (18741958) (Service). Categorization http://www.rikai.com/wordmap/Robert_William_Service#n%1

30. New American Verse Project Texts Added Service, Robert W. (Robert William), 18741958 Ballads of a Cheechako electronictext / by Robert William Service ; electronic text compiled by Alan http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/web4lib/1997-April/017664.html

New American Verse Project texts added Chris Powell sooty at umich.edu Wed Apr 2 17:30:47 EST 1997 Previous message: MS IIS logs, anyone? Next message: unix question: write access to web docs Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] The Humanities Text Initiative at the University of Michigan is pleased to announce the addition of 15 new texts to the American Verse Project. Works by women and African-American authors not contained in other electronic text collections have been added, as have works by well-known authors such as Edgar Allan Poe. The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press. The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. The full text of each volume of poetry is being converted into digital form and coded in Standard Generalized Mark-up Language (SGML) using the TEI Guidelines. The texts are searchable and can be viewed in HTML as well as SGML. The American Verse Project is located at http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/amverse/

31. Robert W. Service Robert W. Service Robert William Service (18741958) by John Garvin, (1872-1934)Garvin, John William, ed. Canadian Poets . Toronto, Canada McClelland http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/garvin/poets/service.html

"Robert W. Service" [Robert William Service] (1874-1958) by John Garvin, (1872-1934) Garvin, John William, ed. Canadian Poets [Page 359] Robert W. Service ONALD G. F RENCH , in the 'Globe Magazine.' [Page 360] R OBERT W. SERVICE is not a Canadian poet in the truest sense of the term. He was not born in Canada, nor did he arrive in this land in early childhood and grow up in a Canadian environment. He was born in Lancashire, England, in 1876, and when six years of age moved to Scotland with his parents. He was educated in the city of Glasgow, his higher education being received in the Hillhead High School, and in the University of Glasgow. At the age of twenty, Mr. Service came to Canada and made his way westward from city to city, until he arrived at Victoria, B.C. The next five years he wandered back and forth on the Pacific coast, travelling as far south as Mexico, residing temporarily in every city of importance, and learning by hard, personal experience, some of the deepest lessons of life. Finally he became a clerk in the Canadian Bank of Commerce at Victoria, and subsequently was stationed at other branches in Vancouver, Kamloops, and White Horse in the Yukon District.

32. Books & Collectibles Online Bookstore And Search Engine For Rare, Out Of Print, Robert W. (Robert William) Service 18741958 Songs of a sourdough Ernest BennLimited London1949 Hardback (no dustjacket) 123 Good Black cloth cover, http://www.booksandcollectibles.com.au/bsearch.php3?bsearch_submit=Search&auth=S

33. Poet Biographies Song An Untitled Protest . Robert W. Service (18741958). Robert William Servicewas born in Preston, Lancashire, England of Scottish parents. http://www.philipgrae.dabsol.co.uk/war/poets/

Biographies of the featured poets Li Po (Japanese Rihaku) (701-762) Chinese poet, one of the greatest figures of Chinese literature. Li Po (or Li Bai) was born into the minor nobility in what is now Sichuan (Szechwan) Province. After an apprenticeship with a Daoist hermit and a time of wandering, he lived briefly as a poet at the Tang dynasty court in Changan but left as the result of intrigue. Then he returned to a life of Daoist study and carefree reflective wandering, writing poems and enjoying nature and the pleasures of wine, supplied free by the emperor's orders. According to legend, Li Po was drowned while drunkenly leaning from a boat to embrace the Moon's reflection on the water. Poem: "Lament of the Frontier Guard" John Donne (1572 -1631) A noted english poet and essayist, Donne sailed with the Earl of Essex and Sir Walter Raleigh in the naval expeditions against Cadiz in August 1596, where the inspiration for his poem "The Burnt Ship" occurred. Walt Whitman (1819-1892) During the Civil War Whitman ministered to wounded soldiers in Union army hospitals in Washington, D.C. He remained there, working as a government clerk, until 1873, when he suffered a stroke that left him partially paralysed. Poem: "Come up from the fields, Father"

34. Service Robert W. Service (18741958). Robert William Service was born in Preston,Lancashire, England of Scottish parents. He spent his childhood in Scotland, http://www.philipgrae.dabsol.co.uk/war/home/service.htm

Robert W. Service (1874-1958) Robert William Service was born in Preston, Lancashire, England of Scottish parents. He spent his childhood in Scotland, educated at the University of Glasgow, and emigrated to Canada in 1894. While working for the Canadian Bank of Commerce he was stationed for eight years in Whitehorse, Yukon. He was a correspondent for the Toronto Star during the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 and an ambulance driver and correspondent in France during World War I. He settled in France after WW1 and returned to Canada during WWII. His vagabond career took him throughout the world, with a diversity of jobs from cook to clerk, from correspondent to hobo. Young Fellow, my Lad Foreword March of the Dead The Munition Maker ... War Widow

35. Search.Smokaz.com - Search Results - Services Service, Robert William 18741958. British-born Canadian writer of poetry andnovels about life in the Yukon, including the ballad The Shooting of Dan http://www.search.smokaz.com/search.php?aid=32997&q=Services

36. IPac2.0 Service, Robert W. (Robert William), 18741958. Frontier and pioneer life Yukon Territory Poetry. Frontier and pioneer life Yukon Territory http://ipac.vpl.ca/ipac20/ipac.jsp?index=BIB&term=1050690

37. Information About Canada FDC: 8¢ Robert Service Robert William Service (18741958) was born in Preston, Lancashire, England ofScottish parents. He spent his childhood in Scotland and attended the http://www.unicover.com/EA4NCCU6.HTM

First Day of Issue: August 17, 1976 Further Information about this issue: Robert William Service (1874-1958) was born in Preston, Lancashire, England of Scottish parents. He spent his childhood in Scotland and attended the University of Glasgow. His vagabond career took him throughout the world, with a diversity of jobs from cook to clerk, from hobo to correspondent . He emigrated to Canada in 1894 and took a job with the Canadian Bank of Commerce and was stationed for eight years in Whitehorse, Yukon. It was while in the Yukon that he published his first book of poems that was to make him famous - Songs of a Sourdough. He was a correspondent for the Toronto Star during the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 and an ambulance driver and correspondent in France during World War I. He returned to Canada during WWII, living in Hollywood and Vancouver. He wrote two autobiographical works, Ploughman of the Moon (1945) and Harper of Heaven (1948) and 6 novels, including The Trail of '98 (1912) about the Klondike Gold Rush, and more than 45 verse collections containing over 1,000 poems. Several of his novels and his poem "McGrew" were adapted to movies. He made a brief appearance with Marlene Dietrich in the 1942 film The Spoilers. 1976 August 17th: Canada issues a 8 cent stamp paying tribute to Robert W. Service. The Service stamp depicts Sam McGee grinning from an open fire on Lake Labarge in the Yukon.

38. Robert William Service - BlueRider.com Robert William Service listen domain availability 1), Canadian writer (bornin England) who wrote about life in the Yukon Territory (1874-1958) http://robert_william_service.bluerider.com/wordsearch/robert_william_service

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39. Poet Links Robert William Service Selected Poetry of Robert W. Service (18741958) Robert W. Service - The Cremation of Sam McGee at American Academy of Poets http://mccants.anderson5.net/library/poetlinks.htm

Poets Poet Adoff, Arnold Angelou, Maya Blake, William Brooks, Gwendolyn ... Welcome to the William Blake Archive "Songs of Innocence": Willam Blake Online Formidable Works Selected Poetry of William Blake (1757-1827) Gwendolyn Brooks - The Academy of American Poets Gwendolyn Brooks Interview Gwendolyn Brooks' Life and Career The National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall Elizabeth Barrett Browning - The Academy of American Poets The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning ... William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) Bryant's Poems at American Verse Project William Cullen Bryant William Cullen Bryant - The Academy of American Poets Robert Burns - The Academy of American Poets ... Paul Laurence Dunbar - The Academy of American Poets Note: Be sure to read the poem Sympathy by Dunbar to find where Maya Angelou got the title I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings for her autobiography. Paul Laurence Dunbar Selected Poetry of William Dunbar (1456-1513) Springfield Library Paul Laurence Dunbar Rare Books Exhibit Introduction Paul Laurence Dunbar Homepage ... Robert Frost poems Robert Frost - Biography and Poems by AmericanPoems.com

40. Life Of Service, By Dan Duffy Robert William Service (18741958), a British subject, was born in England andraised in Scotland. He married in Paris and died in Britanny. http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/Narrative/Duffy_Servic

Viet Nam Generation Journal V3, N4 (January 1992) Texts made available by the Sixties Project . The Sixties Project, sponsored by Viet Nam Generation Inc. and the Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, is dedicated to using electronic resources to provide routes of collaboration and make available primary and secondary sources for researchers, students, teachers, writers and librarians interested in the 1960s. Life of Service Dan Duffy Robert William Service (1874-1958), a British subject, was born in England and raised in Scotland. He married in Paris and died in Britanny. But it was the verse from his young manhood as an emigrant to Canada, when he hoboed in California and followed the gold miners to the Yukon, that made his reputation. Service was born on January 16th, 1974 in Preston, Lancashire to Robert and Emily Service of 4 Christian Road. The poet eventually had six brothers and three sisters. His father, a Scot, worked in a bank until his wife, daughter of an English mill-owner, inherited several thousand pounds. He quit work and moved the family back to his native Glasgow. Young Robert was sent to live in the household of his grandfather John Service, postmaster in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, and raised there in a house full of aunts. Jeanie, Bella, and Jennie took him to Sabbath services, enrolled him in the parish school, and introduced him to the work of Robert Burns. Burns had lived in the area, and Service later claimed that his great grandfather had been a crony of Scotland's national poet.

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