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Biography Robert William Service

Poet Biography

Robert William Service (January 16, - September 11, ) was a poet born into a Scottish family while they were living in Preston, England.

He moved to Canada at the age of 21 when he gave up his job working in a Glasgow bank and travelled to Vancouver Island with his Buffalo Bill outfit and dreams of becoming a cowboy. Hired by the Canadian Bank of Commerce, he was posted to the bank's branch in Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory.

Biography of robert w service She was the author of several books of poetry, including Pro Patria Philadelphia, , a collection about World War I. His father, William Service, was a banker and his mother, Catherine Macaulay, was a schoolteacher. He has received numerous awards, including the Prix Albert Londres, and has inspired a generation of journalists. Read Edit View history.

Inspired by the vast beauty of the Yukon wilderness, Service started writing his poetry about the things he saw. Service became known for his work about the West, and the Yukon gold miners. Such works as "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee" made him famous around the world. After having collected enough poems for a book, Service offered a publisher $ of his own money to publish the work, but the publisher was so sure that the works would be popular (he had already taken offers for sale off the galley proofs), he returned Service's money and offered him a contract.

Soon after The Songs of a Sourdough came out in , Service became rich.

Robert w service poems poetry In Canadian-born country singer Hank Snow recorded recitations of eight of Service's longer poems for an album entitled, Tales of the Yukon. His work is still widely read and appreciated for its vivid descriptions and humor. Now that he was a successful author, she agreed to become engaged to him. His father took the manuscript to William Briggs in Toronto, whose employees loved the book.

He became known as the "Canadian Kipling". Within two years he was able to quit his job at the bank, and to travel -- to Paris, the French Riviera, to Hollywood, and beyond. From to he was a correspondent for the Toronto Star during the Balkan Wars. During World War I he was a driver for the American Field Service and a war correspondent for the Canadian government.

Biography of robert w service poems This did not worry Service, who was happy to classify his work as "verse, not poetry. Army camps to recite his poems. In case you spot any mistake, please contact us. Web, Accessed

Robert W. Service married a woman from Paris and they purchased a summer home in the Brittany Region of France. At the outbreak of World War II he was in Poland and fled the country, going back to North America and on to Hollywood, California where he remained until the war's end, at which time he returned to his home in Brittany, France.

Service wrote two volumes of autobiography - Ploughman of the Moon and Harper of Heaven. He died in Lancieux, Côtes-d'Armor, in Brittany and is buried there in the local cemetery. Robert W. Service has been honored with a school named for him in Anchorage, Alaska, in Dawson City in the Yukon and in Toronto, Ontario. He was also honored on a Canadian postage stamp in Author and Canadian historian, Pierre Berton was a childhood neighbour to the poet.