“The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.”
About Robert W. Service
16 January 1874–11 September 1958
Robert William Service was born on 16 January 1874 in Preston, Lancashire, England, and died on 11 September 1958 at Lancieux, in Brittany, France. Few poets have occupied quite the cultural territory that Service came to possess. He was not, by his own candid admission, a poet of intricate philosophical argument or…