The Complete Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Ballads, travel songs, and children's verses from Victorian Scotland to the South SeasBy Robert Louis Stevenson
Length5h 54m
About this audiobook
The Complete Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson gathers the full range of Stevenson's verse, from the beloved lyrics of A Child's Garden of Verses to meditative, occasional, and travel poems composed across a restless life. These poems reveal a writer attentive to cadence, clarity, and emotional immediacy, often joining Victorian lyric refinement with ballad-like directness and the imaginative freedoms of romance. Childhood, memory, illness, exile, landscape, and moral feeling recur as central themes, giving the collection a broader literary significance than Stevenson's reputation as a novelist alone suggests. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish essayist, novelist, poet, and traveler, wrote under the pressures of chronic ill health and geographical displacement. His journeys through Europe, America, and the Pacific shaped his imagination, while his frailty sharpened his fascination with vitality, play, courage, and transience. The poetry often reflects the same artistic temperament that produced Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: disciplined craft animated by adventure and psychological insight. This volume is recommended to readers seeking a fuller understanding of Stevenson's literary achievement. It offers charm, musicality, and depth, rewarding both admirers of Victorian poetry and those discovering the poetic voice behind one of fiction's great storytellers.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 4.6 (129)
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GenrePoetry
Length5 hrs 54 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 10, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Complete Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson (Annotated)
26TO PRINCESS KAIULANI
2Introduction
27TO MOTHER MARYANNE
3Author Biography
28IN MEMORIAM E.H.
4Historical Context
29TO MY WIFE
5Synopsis (Selection)
30TO MY OLD FAMILIARS
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6BALLADS
31TO S. C.
7A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES
32THE HOUSE OF TEMBINOKA
8UNDERWOODS
33THE SONG
9BOOK I
34THE WOODMAN
10BOOK II
35TROPIC RAIN
11SONGS OF TRAVEL
36AN END OF TRAVEL
12THE VAGABOND
37TO S.R. CROCKETT
13YOUTH AND LOVE — I
38EVENSONG
14YOUTH AND LOVE — II
39THE LESSON OF THE MASTER
15WE HAVE LOVED OF YORE
40A FAMILIAR EPISTLE
16MATER TRIUMPHANS
41EPISTLE TO CHARLES BAXTER
17TO THE TUNE OF WANDERING WILLIE
42EPISTLE TO ALBERT DEW-SMITH
18WINTER
43RONDELS
19TO DR. HAKE
44OF HIS PITIABLE TRANSFORMATION
20TO ——
45THE SUSQUEHANNAH AND THE DELAWARE
21IF THIS WERE FAITH
46ALCAICS TO HORATIO F. BROWN
22MY WIFE
47A LYTLE JAPE OF TUSHERIE
23TO THE MUSE
48TO VIRGIL AND DORA WILLIAMS
24TO AN ISLAND PRINCESS
49BURLESQUE SONNET
25TO KALAKAUA
50THE FINE PACIFIC ISLANDS
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