Songs of Travel and Other Verses

1896 edition of Stevenson's *Songs of Travel*

Songs of Travel and Other Verses is an 1896 book of poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson. Originally published by Chatto & Windus,^[1] it explores the author's perennial themes of travel and adventure. The work gained a new public and popularity when it was set to music in Songs of Travel by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

External links

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Songs of Travel at archive.org
Songs of Travel and Other Verses public domain audiobook at LibriVox

References

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^ William Lyon Phelps (2006). Essays On Modern Novelists. Kessinger Publishing. p. 288.

v t e Robert Louis Stevenson
Books	An Inland Voyage (1878) Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes (1878) Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) The Silverado Squatters (1883) Memories and Portraits (1887) Across the Plains (1892) Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (1892) The Amateur Emigrant (1895)
Novels	Treasure Island (1883) Prince Otto (1885) Kidnapped (1886) The Black Arrow (1888) The Master of Ballantrae (1889) The Wrong Box (1889, with stepson) The Wrecker (1892, with stepson) Catriona (1893) The Ebb-Tide (1894, with stepson) Weir of Hermiston (1896, unfinished) St. Ives (1897, unfinished)
Short story collections	The Suicide Club (1878) The Rajah's Diamond (1878) New Arabian Nights (1882) More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887) Island Nights' Entertainments (1893) Tales and Fantasies (1905)
Short stories	"The Pavilion on the Links" (1880) "Thrawn Janet" (1881) "The Merry Men" (1882) "The Body Snatcher" (1884) "Markheim" (1885) "Olalla" (1885) "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886) "The Bottle Imp" (1891) "The Beach of Falesá" (1892) "The Isle of Voices" (1893)
Poetry	A Child's Garden of Verses (1885) Underwoods (1887) Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
Related	Lloyd Osbourne Fanny Stevenson Isobel Osbourne The Student, newspaper Mount Vaea Writers' Museum Robert Louis Stevenson State Park Stevenson Memorial (1903 painting) The Story of a Recluse (unfinished)
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