Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson As H.G. Wells once said about himself, “I don't know how it is, but whenever a famous contemporary's name is mentioned, there's a respectful hush, but when it's mine, there's a dogfight!” Although, Wells made this comment about himself; it would also be true for Stevenson as well. Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850, the midpoint of the Victorian scholarly period. During his childhood, Stevenson's nurse, “Cummie”, read poetry to him while he was sick in bed, which was a lot due to his lack of health growing up. This the first exposure Stevenson has to literary art, and could be his inspiration to write instead of continuing the family's successful engineering and lighthouse design business. In the Victorian period of literature, much of the poetry was based on realism, romanticism, and naturalism, which is all noticeable in Stevenson's works. Stevenson was a large Victorian bard, which paved the roads for many Romantic poets larger than he with his tone, method="color: Red;">composing method="color: Red;">method and theme.

Stevenson's tone was common in the Victorian era, but was revolutionary and great. He composed in a very comforting voice. All of his verses, encompassing his death verse, are touching and sincere. Stevenson's attitude in his writings was enormous, considering what was going on at the time of his life.

Robert Louis Stevenson had a characteristic method in his writings. For example, there is a rhyme design somewhere in all of his poems. In Stevenson's poems, the majority of the time, the rhyme scheme is ABAB, but Stevenson does write in other schemes. This is common though for poets of this era, although, many poets, whom some feel are greater than he, “owes a clear debt to Stevenson's” (people.brandeis.edu). Stevenson was a secondary bard, who influenced other writers with his groundbreaking ...