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ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN (1841-1901) |
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POETRY
When I began this site in August 2002 it was not that easy to find any of Buchanan’s poems. Apart from the odd poem in the occasional anthology his work had not been reprinted since his death in 1901 and there were only a few examples online. After borrowing the two volume Complete Poetical Works from the library, I skimmed through the thousand, double-columned pages and decided it would be best to just add a personal selection of some of the shorter poems to the site. Later, as the Buchanan bug well and truly bit, I decided to try and add all of his poems to the site, book by book, but in a rather arbitrary fashion dependent on what I could afford to acquire from ebay and abebooks. In April 2007, I discovered that several of Buchanan’s works were now available on the Internet Archive in various formats. However, I decided to carry on with the original aim to get all of Buchanan’s poetry onto one site. The books below are available to read online or to download in .rtf format, as is the original version of the sonnet sequence, ‘Faces on the Wall’, from the Saint Pauls magazine. I have also retained my original selection of ‘the best of Buchanan’. The Complete Poetical Works of 1901 does not contain every poem that Buchanan wrote. Omissions are noted in the books transferred to this site, but occasionally I come across poems which only appear to have been published in magazines, etc., so these have been placed in a separate section. There is also a list of all the poems on this site in alphabetical order. There is also a link below to the Book Reviews section of the site which has contemporary reviews of Buchanan’s poetry books from newspapers and journals in chronological order. Reviews for specific volumes can also be accessed from the complete list at the foot of this page. Other assessments of Buchanan’s poetry can be found in the Critical Writings about Buchanan section. Updating this page in March 2010, I realised that the Internet Archive now has almost every one of Buchanan’s poetry books - the only omissions being his two early volumes of 1857 and 1859 and the Poetical Works of 1874. Specific links to the Internet Archive have been added to the books available on this site and the others can be accessed from the complete list at the foot of the page. ***
IDYLS AND LEGENDS OF INVERBURN. London: Alexander Strahan, 1865. Download the zipped .rtf version Idyls and Legends of Inverburn is available for download in a variety for formats at the Internet Archive. * London: Alexander Strahan, 1866 Download the zipped .rtf version London Poems is available for download in a variety for formats at the Internet Archive. * BALLAD STORIES OF THE AFFECTIONS: from the Scandinavian. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1866 (illus.) Download the zipped .rtf version This site has the second, unillustrated edition. The first edition is available for download from the Internet Archive. * London: George Routledge and Sons, 1867. Download the zipped .rtf version (text only) North Coast and other Poems is available for download in a variety for formats at the Internet Archive. * London: Strahan & Co., 1870 Download the zipped .rtf version The Book of Orm is available for download in a variety for formats at the Internet Archive. * BALDER THE BEAUTIFUL: A Song of Divine Death London: William Mullan and Son, 1877. Download the zipped .rtf version. Balder the Beautiful is available for download in a variety for formats at the Internet Archive. * London: Chatto & Windus, 1885 Download the zipped .rtf version The Earthquake is available for download in a variety for formats at the Internet Archive. * London: Chatto & Windus, 1893 Download the zipped .rtf version The Wandering Jew is available for download in a variety for formats at the Internet Archive. I’ve also included a section on the controversy which followed Richard Le Gallienne’s review of the poem in The Daily Chronicle: “Is Christianity Played Out?” - The Wandering Jew controversy. * London: Robert Buchanan, 1896 Download the zipped .rtf version The Devil’s Case is available for download in a variety for formats at the Internet Archive. * THE NEW ROME: Poems and Ballads of our Empire London: Walter Scott, Ltd., 1898 Download the zipped .rtf version The New Rome is available for download in a variety for formats at the Internet Archive. _____
Saint Pauls, May, 1872 _____
(Poems not published in Buchanan’s books.) _____
(My original selection of the ‘best of Buchanan’.) Download the zipped .rtf version _____
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF POEMS ON THIS SITE _____
Reviews of Buchanan’s poetry books in chronological order.
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Books of Poetry: Poems & Love Lyrics. Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son. 1857. [review]
Collected Editions: Poems. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1866. (available at the Internet Archive) [review]
Miscellaneous: Wayside Posies: original poems of the country life. Edited by R. Buchanan. London: G. Routledge & Sons, 1866. (available at the Internet Archive) [reviews] The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Edited and prefaced by R. Buchanan. London: E. Moxon & Co., 1869. [review] Hon. Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel: Poems of the Hon. Roden Noel. A selection. With an introduction by Robert Buchanan. London, New York: W. Scott, 1892. (available at the Internet Archive)
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