ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN (1841 - 1901)

ROBERT BUCHANAN AND THE MAGAZINES

Much of Robert Buchanan’s work (poetry, essays and novels) first appeared in the numerous literary journals being published at that time, so I thought it might be worthwhile to add these initial reviews to the site. Some essays in particular, ‘The Fleshly School of Poetry’ and ‘The Newest Thing in Journalism’, were more controversial than others and although they are listed here, they are dealt with in more detail elsewhere on the site. There is also a section on Buchanan’s own, short-lived, magazine, Light.

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POEMS:

London Poems: I. Temple Bar (Temple Bar, December 1860.)

The Country Curate’s Story (The Welcome Guest, December 1860.)

London Poems: II. The Dead (Temple Bar, January 1861.)

London Poems: V. Belgravia (Temple Bar, May 1861.)

London Poems: VI. A City Preacher (Temple Bar, July 1861.)

Baby Grace (The St. James’s Magazine, June 1862.)

John Keats in Cloudland (The St. James’s Magazine, July 1863.)

Willie Baird (The Cornhill Magazine, March 1865.)

Langley Lane (Good Words, August 1865.)

Hermioné (The Argosy, December 1865.)

Artist and Model (The Argosy, January 1866.)

Hugo the Bastard (Temple Bar, October 1866.)

Charmian (The Broadway, August 1867.)

A Blind Man’s Love (Routledge’s Christmas Annual, December 1869.)

Phil Blood’s Leap (The Saint Pauls Magazine, February 1872.)

The Ballad of Judas Iscariot (The Saint Pauls Magazine, February 1872.)

Seraphina Snowe (The Saint Pauls Magazine, April 1872.)

Faces on the Wall (The Saint Pauls Magazine, May 1872.)

John Mardon, Mariner (The Saint Paul’s Magazine, July, September and October 1872.)

O’Murtogh (Scribner’s Monthly, December 1872.)

The Great Snow (from White Rose and Red) (The Saint Pauls Magazine, February 1873.)

Mnemosyne, or the Retrospect (from Ballads of Life, Love, and Humour) (Cassell’s Magazine, January, 1874.)

The Ship of Folly (The Saint Pauls Magazine, February 1874.)

Granddad in the Ingle (Cassell’s Magazine, March 1874.)

Erôs Athanatos (The Gentleman’s Magazine, May 1874.)

The Last Poet (The Gentleman’s Magazine, June 1874.)

The Wedding of Shon Maclean (The Gentleman’s Magazine, July 1874.)

The God-like Love (The Gentleman’s Magazine, October 1874.)

The Peepshow; or, The Old Theology And The New (The Gentleman’s Magazine, June 1875.)

The Battle of Isandúla (The Contemporary Review, April 1879.)

Justinian (The Contemporary Review, January 1880.)

Annus Aureolus: An Ode on the Jubilee of the Empress Victoria (The Contemporary Review, June 1887.)

The Burial of Parnell (The Echo, October, 1891.)

ESSAYS:

Robert Herrick, Poet and Divine (Temple Bar, January 1861.)

A Jovial Bishop (Temple Bar, May 1861.)

Holy Mr. Herbert (Temple Bar, July 1861.)

Donne The Metaphysician (Temple Bar, August 1861.)

Thorvaldsen and his English Critics (The Fortnightly Review, 1 June, 1865.)

Immorality in Authorship (The Fortnightly Review, 15 September, 1866.)

Emerson (The Broadway, May 1869.)

George Heath, The Moorland Poet (Good Words, March 1871.)

Mr. John Morley’s Essays (The Contemporary Review, June 1871.)

The Fleshly School Of Poetry: Mr. D. G. Rossetti (The Contemporary Review, October 1871.)

The “Good Genie” of Fiction (The Saint Pauls Magazine, February 1872.)

Criticism as One of the Fine Arts (The Saint Pauls Magazine, April 1872.)

Pity the Poor Drama! (The Saint Pauls Magazine, May 1872.)

Prose and Verse (The Saint Paul’s Magazine, September 1872.)

The Character of Goethe (The New Quarterly Magazine, October 1874.)

Thomas Love Peacock: A Personal Reminiscence (The New Quarterly Magazine, April 1875.)

The Modern Stage (The New Quarterly Magazine - July, 1875.)

Lucretius and Modern Materialism (The New Quarterly Magazine, April 1876.)

The Newest Thing In Journalism (The Contemporary Review, September, 1877.)

Sydney Dobell (Temple Bar, May 1879.)

Free Thought in America (The North American Review, April 1885.)

The Modern Young Man As Critic (The Universal Review, March 1889.)

The Modern Drama and its Minor Critics (The Contemporary Review, December 1889.)

My First Book (The Idler, May 1893.)

The Quintessence of Impudence (The Theatre, February 1897.)

The Voice of The Hooligan (The Contemporary Review, December 1899.)

FICTION:

God and the Man (serialised in Day of Rest, commencing January 1881.)

The New Abelard (serialised in The Gentleman’s Magazine, commencing January 1883.)

Lady Kilpatrick (serialised in The English Illustrated Magazine, April to September, 1893.)

A Dream; and a Deduction (The Zoophilist, June, 1899.)

LIGHT

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