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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. In September 2007, I ran out of space on the original site and have now moved all of the poetry onto this ‘sister site’. 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. 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 listed the books available at the Internet Archive and I have retained my original selection of ‘the best of Buchanan’. I have also added the following Alphabetical Listing of all the Poems on this Site. ***
IDYLS AND LEGENDS OF INVERBURN. London: Alexander Strahan, 1865. Download the zipped .rtf version A facsimile edition of 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 A facsimile edition of 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. * London: George Routledge and Sons, 1868. Download the zipped .rtf version (text only) A facsimile edition of 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 A facsimile edition of The Book of Orm is available for download in a variety for formats at the Internet Archive. * London: Chatto & Windus, 1885 Download the zipped .rtf version * London: Chatto & Windus, 1893 Download the zipped .rtf version A facsimile edition of 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. * THE NEW ROME: Poems and Ballads of our Empire London: Walter Scott, Ltd., 1898 Download the zipped .rtf version A facsimile edition of The New Rome is available for download in a variety for formats at the Internet Archive. * The Internet Archive also has the following books of poetry available for download: Undertones (1865 second edition) 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) The City of Dream (1888) The Outcast (1891) [1896 edition] The Devil’s Case: a bank holiday interlude (1896) Poems (1866) Selected Poems (1882) Complete Poetical Works. (1901) _____
Saint Pauls, May, 1872 _____
(Poems not published in Buchanan’s books.) _____
(My original selection of the ‘best of Buchanan’.) Download the zipped .rtf version
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Books of Poetry: Poems & Love Lyrics. Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son. 1858?
Collected Editions: Poems. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1866. (available at the Internet Archive)
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