The Dead Men's Song

"The Dead Men's Song: Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison" by Champion Ingraham Hitchcock

Young Ewing Allison was an American writer and newspaper editor. In this book, Allison's inspiration to take a song from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and turn it into a full poem. Giving a biography of this fascinating author, readers are able to gain better insight into the inner workings of his mind and what made this previously fictional sea shanty resonate with him.