Songs of Travel, and Other Verses

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Stevenson's last poetry collection (1896, posthumous) contains some of his finest verse, including the famous 'I Will Make You Brooches' and the sequence of travel lyrics that give the book its title. The poems of travel — sea voyages, Scottish hills, Pacific islands — are among the most beautifully observed nature poetry of the Victorian period, and the love poems have a directness and warmth that balances the elegiac awareness of mortality that runs through all his late work.