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
The Merry Men (short story) another story of an isolated man driven mad by Nature. Gordon's rant about the Devil living in the Sea ends with him moaning, ""The horror! The horror of the sea!"" ...which is echoed in Conrad in Kurtz's last message: ""The horror! The horror! Exterminate all the brutes!"" The Merry Men (short story) "The Merry Men" is a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1882 in "Cornhill Magazine" 45-6 (June–July 1882). The story was later published in Stevenson's collection "The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables" (1887). It is set on the fictional island Eilean Aros, based