Quotes by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13 1850 - December 3 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins", as G. K. Chesterton put it. He was also greatly admired by many authors such as Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov and others. Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the canon..
Stevenson, Robert Louis on gardening and gardens
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Stevenson, Robert Louis on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
Stevenson, Robert Louis on politics
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"The obscurest epoch is to-day."
Stevenson, Robert Louis on present
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