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Ballads of a Bohemian
Robert W. Service
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Ballads of a Bohemian is a collection of poems tied together by the narration of the “author” Stephen Poore. The poems speak of bohemian life in Paris before the war, his experiences during World War I and its aftermath.
Ballads of a Bohemian is a collection of poems tied together by the narration of the “author” Stephen Poore. The poems speak of bohemian life in Paris before the war, his experiences during World War I and its aftermath.
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Heigh ho! I realize I am very weary. It's nice to be so tired, and to know one can sleep as long as one wants. The morning sunlight floods in at my window, so I draw the blind, and throw myself on my bed. . . .
IV
My Garret,
Montparnasse, April.
Hurrah! As I opened my eyes this morning to a hard, unfeeling world, little did I think what a surprise awaited me. A big blue envelope had been pushed under my door. Another rejection, I thought, and I took it up distastefully. The next moment I was staring at my first cheque. . . . Read More
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Community Reviews
I liked the title more than the actually poetry most of the time. Still, it was well suited to the period of my life in which I read it.
Robert Service is a British/Canadian poet. Reading a recent facebook message from Louise Penny, I learned a bit more about Service. Penny quoted from a couple of his poems. I was curious and found this collection in the library. His work is sometimes lengthy and daunting. At other times he shows a w
It's in the form of a memoir by an American poet starving in a garret in 1914 Paris. (Service lived in Paris for years -- he was a Klondike poetry mogul by then, although he did enjoy slumming by night with his doorman). Brief anecdotes in prose, along the lines of "Looking up, I saw a ragged girl s
Beautiful
A combination and mix of thoughts, never quite read something quite like this…
But I plan to read something like it again
Well done.
Robert Service is one of my favorite poets, and I have enjoyed the poetry in his other books, but I think that this one is the best. As I glanced through the book, I resisted reading it, because he has prose passages interspersed among his various poems. Yet it seemed to me that this book written in