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Robert William Service (16 January 1874 – 11 September 1958) was a Scottish-Canadian poet and writer, often called "the Bard of the Yukon". Born in Lancashire of Scottish descent, he was a bank clerk by trade, but spent long periods travelling in the west in the United States and Canada, often in poverty.
Born in Lancashire, England to a bank cashier and an heiress, poet Robert William Service moved to Scotland at the age of five, living with his grandfather and three aunts until his parents moved to Glasgow four years later and the family reunited.
Robert William Service Biography a poet and writer who has often been called "the Bard of the Yukon". Service is best known for his poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee", from his first book, Songs of a Sourdough (1907; also published as The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses).
Robert W. Service (born January 16, 1874, Preston, Lancashire, England—died September 11, 1958, Lancieux, France) was a popular verse writer called “the Canadian Kipling” for his rollicking ballads of the “frozen North,” notably “The Shooting of Dan McGrew.”
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Robert W. Service was a poet of the Yukon. His adventurous life took him from the banks of Scotland to the gold fields of Canada and the glamour of Hollywood, but his name remains synonymous with the Klondike Gold Rush.
Robert W. Service. 1874 –. 1958. Read poems by this poet. Robert William Service, the renowned poet of the Yukon, was born in Lancashire, England, on January 16, 1874. The son of a bank cashier, Service was the eldest of four siblings.
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Mar 30, 2010 · The complete poems of Robert Service by Service, Robert W. (Robert William), 1874-1958
