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ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN (1841-1901) |
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ROBERT BUCHANAN LINKS
Works Online The Internet Archive has facsimile editions of the following books by Buchanan, available for download in a variety of formats: Poetry: Undertones (1865 second edition) Idyls and Legends of Inverburn (1865) London Poems (1866) Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian (1866 illustrated edition) Poems. (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1866.) North Coast, and other poems (1868) The Book of Orm (1870) Napoleon Fallen: a lyrical drama (1871) Saint Abe and His Seven Wives: a Tale of Salt Lake City (1872) White Rose and Red: a love story (1873) Selected Poems (1882) The City of Dream (1888) The Outcast (1891 (1896 edition)) The Wandering Jew (1893) The Devil’s Case: a bank holiday interlude (1896) The New Rome (1898) Complete Poetical Works. (1901)
Novels: Foxglove Manor (1884) The New Abelard (1884) The Master of the Mine (1885) Rachel Dene: a tale of the Deepdale Mills (1894) Andromeda: an idyll of the Great River (1900)
Essays: David Gray and other Essays, chiefly on poetry (1868) The Land of Lorne: including the cruise of the ‘Tern’ to the Outer Hebrides (1871) Master-Spirits (1873) A Poet’s Sketch-Book. Selections from the prose writings of Robert Buchanan (1883) A Look Round Literature (1887) The Coming Terror, and other essays and letters (1891)
Plays: The Piper of Hamelin: a fantastic Opera in two acts (1893)
Miscellaneous: The Life and Adventures of J. J. Audubon. (1890 edition of the revised version.) * West Midlands Literary Heritage has a page on Buchanan and the following novels available to download or read online: The Shadow of the Sword (1876) God and the Man (1881) * Cornell University’s ‘Making of America’ site has various 19th. century magazines in facsimile form. These contain the following poems by Robert Buchanan: The New Buddha * The University of Michigan’s ‘Making of America’ site contains the following poems (in facsimile form): The Little Milliner * The Sundown Shores site has an online version of “Lyra Celtica - An Anthology of Representative Celtic Poetry”, first published in 1896, which includes four poems by Buchanan (‘Flower of the World’, ‘The Strange Country’, ‘The Dream of the World without Death’ and ‘The Faëry Foster-Mother’) and the following note by William Sharp on Buchanan, which might be of interest (despite the mistake in his birthplace): “The foremost Scoto-Celtic poet of our time, was born in Glasgow, 1841. It would be needless to give particulars concerning the life and work of so eminent a contemporary. Lovers of the Celtic Muse will doubtless be familiar (or if not, ought to be) with Mr Buchanan's Book of Orm. Much of his early poetry is strongly imbued with the Celtic atmosphere. Those who have read his several volumes of verse need no further guidance, but readers unacquainted with the poetical work of one of the foremost poets of our day should obtain the collective edition of his poems published by Messrs Chatto & Windus. "The Flower of the World" (page 224), "The Dream of the World without Death" (pages 228-234) are from The Book of Orm; "The Strange Country" comes from Miscellaneous Poems and Ballads (1878-1883). No more memorable poem than "The Dream" has been written by an Anglo-Celtic poet.” * Buchanan’s review of Leaves of Grass and Drum-Taps from Broadway Magazine (November 1867) from the Walt Whitman Archive site at the University of Virginia.
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Articles about Buchanan Andrew Nash’s article in The Literary Encyclopedia Buchanan’s entry in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21) Buchanan’s 3 year stay in County Mayo earns him a place on the Princess Grace Irish Library site.
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OTHER LINKS
Literary Sites British and Irish Authors on the Web The Brownings: A Research Guide * Victorian Sites Electronic Texts for Victorianists * History Sites * Local Sites * Poetry Sites * My other sites George Heath, The Moorland Poet The Empty Grave of Edgar Allan Poe
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