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Title Page of a 1916 US edition. A Child's Garden of Verses is an 1885 volume of 64 poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.It has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions, and is considered to be one of the most influential children's works of the 19th century. [2]
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island , Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses .
Underwoods is a collection of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson published in 1887.It comprises two books, Book I with 38 poems in English, Book II with 16 poems in Scots.He says in the initial note that "I am from the Lothians myself; it is there I heard the language spoken about my childhood; and it is in the drawling Lothian voice that I repeat it to myself."
The Swing, oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876; The Swing (Goya), a tapestry cartoon designed by Francisco de Goya; The Swing, 1984, also its title track, 1984 "The Swing" (song), a song recorded by James Bonamy, 1997 "The Swing", a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson published in A Child's Garden of Verses
My Shadow is an 1885 poem by Robert Louis Stevenson. Among his most famous poems for children, [1] [2] it appeared in A Child's Garden of Verses in 1885. [3] [4] It is written in iambic heptameter containing seven metrical feet per line.
From a Railway Carriage is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, included within his 1885 collection A Child's Garden of Verses. [1] 'The poem uses its rhythm to evoke the movement of a train. The poem uses its rhythm to evoke the movement of a train.
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In his 1885 poem, "The Swing," published in A Child's Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson exclaimed that going "up in a swing" was "the pleasantest thing/ Ever a child can do." [ 22 ] Gallery