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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: Doric poets, Lallans poets, Scots Makars, Robert Louis Stevenson, James I of Scotland, Grizel Baillie, John Barbour, Lady Anne Barnard, Robert Henryson, Gavin Douglas, Edwin Morgan, David Lyndsay, Hugh MacDiarmid, William Drummond of Hawthornden, James Hogg, Robert Fergusson, Allan Ramsay, Alexander Montgomerie, William Dunbar, Hamish Henderson, Susanna Blamire, Helen Cruickshank, Robert Garioch, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Richard Holland, Violet Jacob, Matthew Fitt, William Tennant, William Neill, William Soutar, Liz Lochhead, John M. Caie, George Campbell Hay, Charles Murray, Alexander Scott, Makars' Court, Robert Sempill the younger, John Barr, Mark Alexander Boyd, William Thom. Excerpt: Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. He has been greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins." Daguerreotype portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson as a young childStevenson was born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, on 13 November 1850, to Thomas Stevenson (1818-1887), a leading lighthouse engineer, and his wife, the former Margaret Isabella Balfour (1829-1897). Lighthouse design was the family profession: Thomas's own father (Robert's grandfather) was the famous Robert Stevenson, and his maternal grandfather, Thomas Smith, and brothers Alan and David were also among those ...
