ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN (1841 - 1901)

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UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Algernon Swinburne’s response to Robert Buchanan’s ‘Fleshly School of Poetry’ was a pamphlet entitled ‘Under The Microscope’, published in 1872. The original is pictured above. In 1899, the American publisher, Thomas B. Mosher, issued a reprint of Swinburne’s essay with an appendix including, among other items, Buchanan’s poetic response, ‘The Monkey and the Microscope’.

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UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

BY ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

 

(Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1899.)

 

CONTENTS

                                                                                                       Page

1. Preface                                                                   vii

2. UNDER THE MICROSCOPE                             1

3.. Appendix:

I. THE SESSION OF THE POETS                           89

II. THE MONKEY AND THE MICROSCOPE       92

III. BUCHANAN’S APOLOGIA                             94

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[Note: Swinburne’s Greek quotations are included in the text as .jpgs to avoid font problems.]

 

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