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Robert Service (1874-1958) was born in Scotland, but moved to Canada at age 21, complete with a Buffalo Bill outfit, intent on becoming a cowboy. Service instead became a banker. It was post in the bank’s Yukon Territory that led Service to begin writing poems about the wilderness he saw, as well as the Yukon gold miners digging up the territory. Robert Service is noted for The Shooting of Dan McGrew, The Cremation of Sam McGee, and The Songs of Sourdough. (Add picture)

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irishgit (151)
02/06/2007
If you get away from all that balladic semi-comic nonsense that he is unfortunately famous for, he's actually a pretty good poet.

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DrEntropy (40)
02/05/2007
A solid, respectable proletarian/folk poet. Not bad-though not great by world-historical standards either. Service is still very popular among blue-collar types in Alaska and Canada (Service got his material covering the Yukon gold rush). A interesting poet, in that he is quite popular with the kinds of people who normally ignore or dislike poetry, like teenagers and practical men: "Young man, gather gold and gear/They will wear you well/You can thumb your nose at fear/Wish the horde in hell/With the haughty you can be/Insolent and bold /Young man, if you would be free /Gather gear and gold...."-Rob Service, 'Security'

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Randyman (109)
02/13/2005
I don't know if he is one of the greatest or not, but his style and subject matter have always appealed to me. Believe it or not I had never heard of him until I saw an advertisement for Yukon Jack Canadian Whiskey, in a magazine, about 1979 or 80. On the ad was an excerpt from Kith and Kin, It really got my attention and I started reading his writings, and have been hooked ever since. Long gone, but not forgotten. (correction, the title was The Men that don't fit in).

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Rabix99 (0)
12/07/2004
Even though I was forced into doing my Grade 11 English project on Service, I am somewhat glad that I had to learn about Service who has a fascinating history, writing style and poem archive rather than a worse or more boring poet. People looking for inspirational material should look into Service's biography. He survived a 2,000 mile canoe trip, just to return to a ghost town that held him in its spell. Many of his poems involve the spell that the North casts on those who enter the domain. The Lure of Little Voices are constantly calling to The Men Who Don't Fit In who, so many years ago, travelled the Trail of '98 to arrive in the Land God Forgot to 'moil' for gold and fortune. Service's use of slang and vernacular makes him more of a people's poet, more concerned in the lower-class opinion than the stuffy, board members he disliked. Service Rocks. Read Up on the Bard of the North!!

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