{"id":250,"date":"2012-04-16T19:17:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T19:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/?p=250"},"modified":"2012-07-02T16:38:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T16:38:30","slug":"robert-louis-stevenson-1850-1894","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/afterlife\/robert-louis-stevenson-1850-1894\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>(1887) \u201cThe Unfathomable Sea\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In 1887 Stevenson published &#8216;To N.V. de G.S.: The Unfathomable Sea&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>THE unfathomable sea, and time, and tears,<br \/>\nThe deeds of heroes and the crimes of kings<br \/>\nDispart us;<\/p>\n<p>This is a poem about a love that could have been\u2014one separated by a metaphorical sea. Surprisingly, in &#8216;The English Admirals&#8217; (1881), an essay about sea captains, heroism, and their connection to narratives, Stevenson does not mention &#8216;Spens&#8217; at all.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpts from: Robert Louis Stevenson, <em>Ballads and Other Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson. <\/em>(New York: Charles Schribner&#8217;s Sons, 1895). <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=3RhHAAAAYAAJ\">GoogleBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>(1896) Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Stevenson certainly knew of the ballad because he mentions the ballad by lamenting all the mariners who died in the North Sea, that &#8216;dear road for Sir Patrick Spens and his Scots Lords&#8217;. He points out Aberdour as Spens\u2019s departure and quotes a stanza about the women waiting for the captain and the others to return. He then writes: &#8216;Since Sir Patrick sailed from Aberdour, what a multitude have gone down in the North Sea!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><em>Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes.<\/em> (New York: Macmillian and Co.,1896). p. 90. <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=31kLAAAAYAAJ\">GoogleBooks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(1887) \u201cThe Unfathomable Sea\u201d In 1887 Stevenson published &#8216;To N.V. de G.S.: The Unfathomable Sea&#8217;. THE unfathomable sea, and time, and tears, The deeds of heroes and the crimes of kings Dispart us; This is a poem about a love &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/afterlife\/robert-louis-stevenson-1850-1894\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30366],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afterlife"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}