Sea shanty until that decade. A well-known early example, though not strictly speaking a reference to a shanty, is the song "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest", which was invented by Robert Louis Stevenson for his novel "Treasure Island" (1883). Quotes of "Blow the Man Down" were particularly plentiful. Rudyard Kipling romanticized the idea of the sailor's sea song within the poetic genre with his works "The First Chantey" and "The Last Chantey" (1893). While shanties were historically understood as work songs, the word "shanty" has often been used in popular culture since the mid-20th century as a catch-all term that
Louis de Robert Louis de Robert Louis de Robert (5 March 1871, Paris – 27 September 1937) was a French writer, winner of the prix Femina in 1911. He became friends with Émile Zola during the Dreyfus Affair and took a stand for the revision of the trial. A regular collaborator in "The Journal", with Jules Renard, Alphonse Allais, Octave Mirbeau, he was the first reader of the proofs of "Du côté de chez Swann", and dissuaded his friend Marcel Proust to shorten his novel. "Le Roman du malade", serialized in "Le Figaro" then published by the , Prix Femina 1911, the novel