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Robert W. Service Robert William Service was born in Preston, England on January 16, 1874. Though he was born in England and lived in Europe until he was 20, Service lived in Canada for many years and is widely known as “the Canadian Kipling” (qtd, in “Robert W. Service). Wars were a big part of Service‟s life, specifically the Balkan War of 1912- 1913, WWI, and WWII. He went from being educated in Scotland to working at multiple bank branches in Vancouver and the Yukon Territory to being “a war correspondent for a Toronto newspaper during the Balkan War” (“Robert W. Service”). After that he spent some time in France during WWI “as an ambulance driver” (“Robert W. Service”). The years he spent in Canada and France were his most successful years when it came to writing. While in Yukon, “his first volume of verse, Songs of a Sourdough (1907), was published…and was an instant success” (“Robert W. Service”). The money he earned from his first volume gave him the opportunity “to publish more verse and his first novel, The Trail of Ninety-Eight: A Northland Romance (1910)” (“Robert W. Service”). Two of his “widely memorized parlor ballads…„The Shooting of Dan McGrew‟ and „The Cremation of Sam McGee‟” were poems written to describe the people from Yukon in a comedic and ironic way (“Robert W(illiam) Service”). His popularity grew from France as well after he published “one of his best-known books of verse, Rhymes of a Red Cross Man (1916), [and] it was this volume that enabled Service to gain a degree of distinction as a poet in his own right” (“Robert W. Service”). One of his other works from his time in France, The Pretender: A Story of the Latin Quarter (1914), was “based on his experiences in the bohemian circles of Europe before World War I” (“Robert W. Service”).
Robert W. Service After years of living in France and Canada with his family and publishing novels and autobiographies, Service competed his another collection of verse “after the Second World War [that were] more autobiographical and opinionated than any of his previous collections,” making it his “first postwar book of verse (“Robert W. Service”). Songs of a Sun-Lover (1949) took a different turn compared to his other works that were more comedic, ironic, or even grime when it came to the wars or Yukon. This work focused on more “serious issues as poetry, politics, human nature, and religion” (“Robert W. Service”). Up until his death on September 11, 1958 in Lancieux, France, Service wrote and published works and volumes of verse. Some of these include “Rhymes of a Roughneck (1950), Lyrics of a Lowbrow (1951), Rhymes of a Rebel (1952), and Songs for My Supper (1953)” (“Robert W(illiam) Service”). His later poems, similar to those from Songs of a Sun-Lover, “declared his commitment to compassion, humor, and the virtues of nature” (“Robert W(illiam) Service”). Throughout his life, Service faced mixed reviews about his work and film adaptations to various novels, but Service continued to write. “Service‟s verse is widely anthologized and continues to find a large and receptive audience,” even after his death (“Robert W. Service”).
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