ROBERT BUCHANAN

(1841 - 1901)

Biography

Brief biographies of Buchanan, obituaries, and a section on his final resting place.

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Bibliography

A fairly complete list of Buchanan’s works.

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Poetry

The full text of Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, London Poems, Ballad Stories of the Affections, North Coast and other Poems, The Book of Orm, The Earthquake, The Wandering Jew, The New Rome, and a selection of his shorter poems. Plus a complete list of all the poems currently available on this site and links to online editions of his poetry.

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Novels

Links to online versions of The Shadow of the Sword, God and the Man, Foxglove Manor,
The New Abelard, The Master of the Mine, Rachel Dene: a tale of the Deepdale Mills and Andromeda: an idyll of the Great River.

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Plays

A list of Buchanan’s plays with links to contemporary reviews and sections
on “Alone in London” and Buchanan’s theatrical ventures in America.

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Essays

The full text of The Coming Terror, plus essays on Charles Reade,
George Heath, Rudyard Kipling and ‘My First Book’.

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Letters

Letters to Robert Browning and Roden Noel,
plus a list of the known locations of Buchanan’s surviving letters.

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Miscellanea

Buchanan’s defence of Oscar Wilde. Buchanan and the Law.
Plus an article about Buchanan from Pearson’s Weekly and Israel Zangwill’s ‘Art in England’.

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Harriett Jay

Full text of Robert Buchanan. Some Account of His Life, His Life’s Work and
His Literary Friendships by Harriett Jay, Buchanan’s sister-in-law. Plus additional information
 about Miss Jay including a bibliography, a section on When Knights Were Bold, and her will.

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Critical Writings about Buchanan

Full text of Robert Buchanan, the Poet of Modern Revolt by Archibald Stodart-Walker.
Critical appreciations of Buchanan by Henry Murray, Roden Noel,
Edmund Clarence Stedman and Lafcadio Hearn, and various other essays.

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The Fleshly School Controversy

Material relating to Buchanan’s unfortunate spat with the Pre-Raphaelites.

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Buchanan Links

Links to other Buchanan works online and related sites.

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Site Diary

Information about this site.

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(If you have any comments to make about Robert Buchanan or this site, please email me, Patrick Regan)