Robert Service?

[GaryBeaner]

Found a short clip about Robert Service the other day, and apart from his poetry and a brief description of his life I can't find much about him. I'm just wondering if anyone can enlighten me. If you watch the clip you'll see why I'm interested.
Cheers.:confused2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zihYVz8tW4g

[jbrown14]

I'll have to remind myself to watch the clip when I get home from work later. Robert Service has been a favorite of mine since my mother used to read "The Cremation of Sam McGee" to my brother, sisters, and me just before bed. I can still recite the first 2 or 3 verses though it's been almost 10 years since the last time I remember reading it. I don't know much about the man himself.

[Edwin]

Odd. split character, my favourite book of his poems is Ballads of a Bohemian about his life in Paris and ambulance service in the First World War. never claimed to write poetry but only verse but is really reads well.

"Tis easy to make a rhyme,
That did the world but know it,
Your coachman would Parnassus climb,
Your Butler be a poet."

But
Kelly of the Legion

"The scourings of creation,
Of every sin and station,
The men who've known damnation,
Are picked to lead the way."

Should be available here:

http://manybooks.net/titles/serviceretext97blbhm10.html