Robert J C Stead

Why Don't They Cheer?: Poems (Classic Reprint) Robert J C Stead

Publisher Marketing: Excerpt from Why Don't They Cheer?: Poems Robert J. C. Stead, of Calgary, is the only singer of any decided merit that the Canadian West has yet produced. That other Robert, who has won such wide fame with his unconventional Klondike lyrics, is a hinterland poet; his verse is not truly representative of the life and thought of the vast majority of people whom we call Westerners. Robert Service has voiced the varied emotions of miners and adventurers, transients in a wildly beautiful and, in many respects, terrible land of ice and gold. Stead, on the other hand, while living in sight of the ice-crowned Rockies and with the lonely wilderness not many hours distant, centres his gaze upon the prairie country with its peaceful industry and innumerable problems incidental to the settling of a fertile empire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.