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Brown was Keats's closest friend. His Life of John Keats , revised and completed twenty years after the poet's death, offers unique insight into Keats's life.
"The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature" (RLS, "On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature", Contemporary Review 47 [April 1885]) Welcome to the RLS Website ! - the most comprehensive web resource dedicated to Robert Louis Stevenson , designed for all: academics , school children and everybody interested in learning about RLS . This is the place for information on Stevenson's life and works - and much more. RLS is not just the author of Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde .
I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. December, 1843. Text, spelling, and punctuation as published by Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E.C., London, 1890, from 1881 photographs of the author's original 66-page Chapman and Hall manuscript and compared with the genuine First Edition {brown cloth}.
The University of South Carolina prides itself on its reputation as one of the foremost institutions in the United States for the study of Scottish literature. The Thomas Cooper Library is fortunate to have one of the foremost collections of Scottish literature anywhere outside of Scotland. Many of its valuable holdings are part of the G. Ross Roy Collection of Scottish Literature and the Rodger L. Tarr Collection of Thomas Carlyle . Professor Roy, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, is editor of Studies in Scottish Literature , the premier journal in its field.