罗伯特·威廉·瑟维斯传记

罗伯特·威廉·瑟维斯

罗伯特·威廉·瑟维斯摄
  • 时间1874 - 1958
  • 的地方普雷斯顿
  • 国家英格兰

诗人的传记

罗伯特·威廉·瑟维斯(Robert William Service, 1874年1月16日- 1958年9月11日)是一位诗人,出生在英格兰普雷斯顿的一个苏格兰家庭。21岁时,他放弃了在格拉斯哥一家银行的工作,搬到了加拿大,带着水牛比尔的服装来到温哥华岛,梦想着成为一名牛仔。他被加拿大商业银行(Canadian Bank of Commerce)聘用,被派往该银行位于育空地区白马市(Whitehorse)的分行。育空荒野的广阔美景启发了Service,他开始写诗描述他所看到的事物。Service以他关于西部和育空金矿矿工的作品而闻名。《枪杀丹·麦克格鲁》和《山姆·麦基的火葬》等作品使他享誉全球。在收集了足够的诗歌写成一本书之后,Service从自己的钱中拿出100美元让出版商出版他的作品,但出版商非常确信这些作品会很受欢迎(他已经从厨房的样稿中收到了1700份出售报价),他退还了Service的钱,并与他签订了合同。《酵母之歌》于1907年出版后不久,Service变得富有起来。他被称为“加拿大吉卜林”。不到两年,他就辞去了银行的工作,可以去旅行——去巴黎、去法国里维埃拉、去好莱坞,甚至更远的地方。 From 1912 to 1913 he was a correspondent for the Toronto Star during the Balkan Wars. During World War I he was a driver for the American Field Service and a war correspondent for the Canadian government. Robert W. Service married a woman from Paris and they purchased a summer home in the Brittany Region of France. At the outbreak of World War II he was in Poland and fled the country, going back to North America and on to Hollywood, California where he remained until the war's end, at which time he returned to his home in Brittany, France. Service wrote two volumes of autobiography - Ploughman of the Moon and Harper of Heaven. He died in Lancieux, Côtes-d'Armor, in Brittany and is buried there in the local cemetery. Robert W. Service has been honored with a school named for him in Anchorage, Alaska, in Dawson City in the Yukon and in Toronto, Ontario. He was also honored on a Canadian postage stamp in 1976. Author and Canadian historian, Pierre Berton was a childhood neighbour to the poet.