Assoc for Scottish LiteratureSep 25, 2024

From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod…

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Nod” – from A Child’s Garden of Verses

Image: illustration by Charles Robinson (1870–1937) to “The Land of Nod”

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47431/the-land-of-nod

The Land of Nod

From breakfast on through all the day At home among my friends I stay, But every night I go abroad Afar into the land of Nod. All by myself I have to go, With none to tell me what to do — All alone beside the streams And up the mountain-sides of dreams. The strangest things are there for me, Both…

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“Stevenson relates examples of vivid dreams at length, as illustrations of this detailed, indigenous creation of narrative material, but also as a pathology which leads to the reification of such dream residuum in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde…”

—Kevan Manwaring, “That Crafty Artifice: Stevenson’s Brownies and the Writing Process”

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2018/07/that-crafty-artifice-stevensons-brownies-and-the-writing-process/

That Crafty Artifice: Stevenson's Brownies and the Writing Process - The Bottle Imp

In ‘A Chapter on Dream’ Robert Louis Stevenson describes a creative process informed by dreams and possibly by other, more mysterious forces. If we are to accept Stevenson’s self-reflexive examination of methodology as sincere and not as some ironical stance or whimsical apologia, which, as Henry James notes in ‘The Art of Fiction’ was all-too-common […]

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“While he was yet a student, there came to him a dream-adventure which he has no anxiety to repeat; he began, that is to say, to dream in sequence and thus to lead a double life…”

—read Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Chapter on Dreams” on @gutenberg_org

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30990/30990-h/30990-h.htm#page177

The Project Gutenberg eBook of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Volume XVI, by Robert Louis Stevenson.