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Robert Service |
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| Canadian poet Robert Service is best known for his vivid ballads about life in the Yukon Territory during the gold rush of the late 1890s. He gathered material for his poems while working as a bank clerk in the towns of Dawson and Whitehorse. After leaving the Yukon in 1912, Service traveled extensively. Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, a volume of poetry published in 1916, was inspired by his experiences as an ambulance driver during World War I (1914-1918). | ||||||
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| Canadian Literature; Service, Robert W(illiam) | ||||||
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