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Robert Service

Robert Service
Jan. 16, 1874 - Sept. 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.

And he was no poor, garret-type poet, either. His stuff made money hand over fist. One piece alone, The Shooting of Dan McGrew, rolled up half a million dollars for him. He lived it up well and also gave a great deal to help others.

"The only society I like," he once said, "is that which is rough and tough - and the tougher the better. That's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people."

He found that kind of society in the Yukon gold rush, and he immortalized it.

Too bad there are not more poets like Service, and fewer who seem to be talking to themselves in wispy symbolisms that resemble nothing so much as the maunderings of 3 a.m. drunks at a bar.

Biography of Robert Service

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Selected Works of Robert Service

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The Spell of the Yukon
and other verses

New Poems added Saturday, May 12, 2001

NewThe Land God Forgot

The Spell of the Yukon

The Heart of the Sourdough

The Three Voices

The Law of the Yukon

The Parson's Son

The Call of the Wild

The Lone Trail

The Pines

The Lure of Little Voices

The Song of the Wage-Slave

Grin

The Shooting of Dan McGrew

The Cremation of Sam McGee

My Madonna

Unforgotten

The Reckoning

Quatrains

The Men That Don't Fit In

Music in the Bush

The Rhyme of the Remittance Man

The Low-Down White

The Little Old Log Cabin

The Younger Son

The March of the Dead

"Fighting Mac"

The Woman and the Angel

The Rhyme of the Restless Ones

New Year's Eve

Comfort

The Harpy

The Premonition

The Tramps

L'Envoi

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Ballads of a Cheechako

To the Man of the High North

Men of the High North

The Ballad of the Northern Lights

The Ballad of the Black Fox Skin

The Ballad of Pious Pete

The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill

NewThe Ballad of One-Eyed Mike

NewThe Ballad of the Brand

The Ballad of Hardluck Henry

NewThe Man from Eldorado

My Friends

NewThe Prospector

NewThe Black Sheep

NewThe Telegraph Operator

NewThe Wood-Cutter

NewThe Song of the Mouth Organ

The Trail of Ninety-Eight

NewThe Ballad of Gum-Boot Ben

NewClancy of the Mounted Police

Lost

NewL'Envoi

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Bar-Room Ballads

The Ballad of the Ice-Worm Cocktail

Bessie's Boil

Good-Bye, Little Cabin

The Idealist

Madame La Marquise

Maternity


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