ROBERT W. SERVICE BEST QUOTES & INSPIRING RHYMES

This anthology proposes a selection of some 260 extracts of Robert W. Service best poems and quotes collected by thematics – freedom, love, work, success, nature, happiness – everyday concerns as well as philosophical quests arising in our life ; a timeless source of inspiration and wisdom which are still moving people everyday as explained touchingly by some of his admirers.

Including a brief biography, the vigorous, colorful, humorous and sensitive ballads of the most widely read poet of his time are innovatively revived now, thanks to the selection and the illustrations of his great-granddaughter Charlotte Service-Longépé.

"As one might expect, the classic Yukon poems are represented, but this anthology spans the entire length of Service’s career, including some material that he wrote before coming to the Yukon and other material from the 1950s, a few years before he passed away in 1958 at Lancieux. I found quite a bit of material that I had never seen before. The book is engaging and I devoured it in large gulps over three or four days. It’s a nice package." 

Dan Davidson, What's Up Yukon, Yukon, Canada, 2021.

Robert W. Service's vagabond of verses career blossomed in the Canadian Great North. A journey led by a diversity of jobs from ploughman to bank clerk, from hobo to war correspondent; each time penning his life into rhymes which have spread throughout the world.

Ever since he became Bard of the Yukon, his poems have caught the spirit of wanderlust latent in every one of us, his verses living on forever in the imagination of generations of readers of all kind, armchair wanderers or followers of the open road, all reading his ballads to provide them solace, encouragement, philosophical inspiration or a just smile.

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