News at Eleven: Stuart Campbell has had the bright idea

of bringing together Stevenson's love poems and printing them in chronological order. Reading them in this way makes a powerful impression. The popularity and fame of Stevenson as a novelist has distracted attention from his poetry, except perhaps A Child's Garden of Verses. He wrote a substantial range of poems, both in English and in Scots, "that illustrious and malleable tongue", as he called it.

from The Scotsman: RLS In Love: The love poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson

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