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The Lure Of the Rhyme

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19941204
Author:David Barber

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON's contribution to the canon of beguilement is as sterling as any - the Oxford Companion to English Literature goes so far as to assert that Treasure Island (1883) was one of the first children's adventure stories that carried "no obvious moral purpose." And the one volume of poetry that indisputably holds its own with the Victorian era's juvenile classics in prose is A Child's Garden of Verses, a collection that Stevenson mostly wrote while confined to his "detested bed," recovering from the dire effects of a hemorrhage. Published in 1885 and dedicated to his ...

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