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BIBLIOGRAPHY
There are various problems with constructing a Buchanan bibliography. According to the Literary Encyclopedia, “From 1880 nearly fifty of his dramas, some co-authored with Harriett Jay, G. R. Sims and others, were produced, often directed by Buchanan himself.....Buchanan did not think highly of his stage plays and did not want his name published in association with them.” And then one comes across the following statement: “A number of Buchanan’s novels were versions of plays he had already produced and at least one of these - Lady Kilpatrick (1895) - was almost certainly not written by him.” A further complication is the fact that there were other Robert Buchanans writing at the same time. The most prominent of these was Robert Buchanan (1785-1873), Professor of Logic at Glasgow University. He largely confined himself to Scottish themes for his poetry and plays, however he also wrote ‘Fragments of the Table Round’, a series of poems about King Arthur. My first attempt at a Buchanan bibliography was cobbled together from various sources - the British Library catalogue, the selected bibliography at the end of Harriett Jay’s biography and the internet - and was presented in chronological order. I then came across John A. Cassidy’s Robert W. Buchanan (New York: Twayne Publishers Inc., 1973) which contains the closest thing to a complete bibliography. John A. Cassidy prefaces his bibliography with the following remarks which I think are worth repeating since they indicate the extent of Buchanan’s fall from grace since his death: “There is no complete collection of Buchanan’s works. Most of the poetry is included in The Complete Poetical Works of 1901, but several of the early poems are omitted from this edition; and The Drama of Kings is cut considerably from the original version of 1871. Of the fifty plays listed by Allardyce Nicoll in his Late Nineteenth Century Drama (282-83), only three have been published; and my efforts have unearthed only forty-four plays in manuscript or typescript in the Lord Chancellor’s collection now in the British Museum. The main part of this bibliography is due to John A. Cassidy, however I have added other works (in a different colour) as I have come across them. I have also included a brief filmography and a list of musical adaptations of Buchanan’s poems. For further details about the various editions of Buchanan’s works I have added a page of Additional Bibliographic Information.
ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN
1. Collected Editions Poems. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1866. (available at the Internet Archive) [review] The Poetical Works. 3 vols. London: H. S. King & Co., 1874. Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1874. Selected Poems. London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. (available at the Internet Archive) The Poetical Works. 1 vol. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. (Identical to Vol. 1 of the 1901 edition.) Complete Poetical Works. 2 vols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1901. (available at the Internet Archive: Volume 1, Volume 2)
2. Books of Poetry Poems & Love Lyrics. Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son. Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox. London: Hall, Virtue and Co. 1858? Mary, and other Poems. Glasgow. 1859. Undertones. London: E. Moxon, 1863. (available at the Internet Archive) Idyls and Legends of Inverburn. London: Alexander Strahan, 1865. (available on this site) [review] London Poems. London: Alexander Strahan, 1866. (available on this site) [review] Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1866. (available on this site) North Coast and Other Poems. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1868. (available on this site) [review] The Book of Orm: a prelude to the epic. London: Strahan & Co., 1870. (available on this site) Napoleon Fallen: a lyrical drama. London: Strahan & Co., 1871. (available at the Internet Archive) [review] The Drama of Kings. London: Strahan & Co., 1871. Saint Abe and His Seven Wives: a Tale of Salt Lake City. London: Strahan & Co., 1872. (available at the Internet Archive) [review] White Rose and Red: a love story. London: Strahan & Co., 1873. (available at the Internet Archive) Balder the Beautiful: a song of divine death. London: William Mullan and Son, 1877. Ballads of Life, Love, and Humour. London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. [review] The Earthquake: or Six days and a Sabbath. London: Chatto & Windus, 1885. (available on this site) [review] The City of Dream. London: Chatto & Windus, 1888. (available at the Internet Archive) The Outcast: a rhyme for the time. London: Chatto & Windus, 1891. (available at the Internet Archive) [review] The Buchanan Ballads Old and New. London: John Haddon and Company, 1892. (available at the Internet Archive) The Wandering Jew: a Christmas carol. London: Chatto & Windus, 1893. (available on this site) [reviews] The Devil’s Case: a bank holiday interlude. London: Robert Buchanan, 1896. (available at the Internet Archive) The Ballad of Mary the Mother: a Christmas carol (and other poems). London: Robert Buchanan, 1897. (available at the Internet Archive) The New Rome: poems and ballads of our empire. London: Walter Scott, Ltd., 1898.
3. Novels The Shadow of the Sword. 3 vols. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1876. (available from West Midlands Literary Heritage) [reviews] A Child of Nature. 3 vols. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1881. God and the Man. London: Chatto & Windus, 1881. (available from West Midlands Literary Heritage) The Martyrdom of Madeline. 3 vols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. Love Me For Ever. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. Annan Water. 3 vols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. [review] Foxglove Manor. 3 vols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. (available at the Internet Archive: The New Abelard. 3 vols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. (available at the Internet Archive: The Master of the Mine. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1885. (available at the Internet Archive: Vol 1, Vol 2) [review] Matt: A Story of a Caravan. London: Chatto & Windus, 1885. (U.S. title: Matt: A Tale of a Caravan) Stormy Waters. 3 vols. London: John and Robert Maxwell, 1885. That Winter Night: or, Love’s Victory. Bristol: Arrowsmith’s Bristol Library, 1886. The Heir of Linne. 2 vols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1888. The Moment After: a tale of the unseen. London: William Heinemann, 1890. [review] Come Live with Me and Be My Love: an English pastoral. London: William Heinemann, 1891. (Alternate title: Squire Kate.) The Wedding Ring: a tale of to-day. New York: Cassell Publishing Co., 1891. [review] Woman and the Man. London: Chatto & Windus, 1893. Rachel Dene: a tale of the Deepdale Mills. 2 vols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1894. (available at the Internet Archive) Lady Kilpatrick. London: Chatto & Windus, 1895. [review] The Charlatan. (In collaboration with Henry Murray.) London: Chatto & Windus, 1895. Diana’s Hunting. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. [review] A Marriage by Capture. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. [review] Effie Hetherington. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. [reviews] Father Anthony. London: John Long, 1898. [review] The Rev. Annabel Lee: a tale of to-morrow. London: C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd. 1898. [review] Andromeda: an idyll of the Great River. London: Chatto & Windus, 1900. (available at the Internet Archive) [review] The Peep O’ day boy: a Romance of ’98. London: John Dicks, 1902.
Stormbeaten: or Christmas Eve at the “Old Anchor” Inn. (Written in collaboration with Charles Gibbon.) London: Ward Lock & Co., 1862. (more information) Red and White Heather: North Country tales and ballads. London: Chatto & Windus, 1894
David Gray and other Essays, chiefly on poetry. London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1868. (available at the Internet Archive) The Land of Lorne: including the cruise of the ‘Tern’ to the Outer Hebrides. 2 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1871. (available at the Internet Archive) [reviews] The Fleshly School of Poetry and Other Phenomena of the Day. London: Strahan and Company, 1872. (available on this site) [review] Master-Spirits. London: Henry S. King and Company, 1873. (available at the Internet Archive) The Hebrid Isles: wanderings in the Land of Lorne and the Outer Hebrides. London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. (A revised edition of The Land of Lorne.) [review] A Poet’s Sketch-Book. Selections from the prose writings of Robert Buchanan. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. (available at the Internet Archive) A Look Round Literature. London: Ward and Downey, 1887. (available at the Internet Archive) [review] On Descending into Hell: a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Henry Matthews, Q.C., Home Secretary, concerning the proposed suppression of literature. London: George Redway, 1889. [review] [Reprinted in The Coming Terror, and other essays and letters (1891) - (available on this site) ] The Coming Terror, and other essays and letters. London: William Heinemann, 1891. (available on this site) [review] Is Barabbas a necessity? A discourse on publishers and publishing. 1896 The Voice of “The Hooligan”; a discussion of Kiplingism. (with Sir Walter Besant.) New York: The Tucker Pub. Co.,1900.
6. Significant Contributions to Periodicals “A Heart Struggle. A Tale in Two Parts,” Part I, Temple Bar, IV (December, 1861), 137-50; Part II (January, 1862), 195-215. “Lady Letitia’s Lilliput Hand,” Part I, Temple Bar, IV (March, 1862), 551-79; Part II, V(April, 1862), 114-31. “Wintering at Etrétat,” Part I, Argosy, I (February, 1866), 165-72; Part II, (April, 1866), 315-24. Review of Swinburne’s Poems and Ballads. Athenaeum (August 4, 1866), pp. 137-38. “The Session of the Poets,” Spectator, XXXIX (September 15, 1866), 1028. “Immorality in Authorship,” Fortnightly, VI (September 15, 1866), 289-300. “Walt Whitman,” Broadway, I (l867-68) 188-95. “Mr. John Morley’s Essays,” Contemporary Review, XVII (June, 1871), 319-37. “The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D. G. Rossetti,” Contemporary Review, XVIII (October, 1871), 334-50. (available on this site) “The Stealthy School of Criticism,” [a letter] Athenaeum (December 30, 1871), p. 887. “Tennyson’s Charm,” St. Pauls Magazine, X (March, 1872), 282-303. “The Monkey and the Microscope,” St. Pauls Magazine, XI (August, 1872), 240. “The Newest Thing in Journalism,” Contemporary Review, XXX (September, 1877), 678-703. “The Modern Drama and Its Minor Critics,” Contemporary Review, LVI (December, 1889), 908-25. “The Heir: a Dramatic Sketch in Four Chapters,” National Graphic, L (December, 1894), 17-20. “The Voice of ‘The Hooligan,’” Contemporary Review, LXXVI (December, 1899), 776-89. (available on this site)
7. The Dramas The Rathboys. (In collaboration with Charles Gibbon.) 1862. The Witchfinder. 1864. [review] A Madcap Prince. 1874. [review] Corinne. 1876. [review] The Queen of Connaught. (An adaptation of Harriett Jay’s novel, written in collaboration with Harriett Jay.) 1877. [review] The Nine Days’ Queen. 1880. [reviews] Only A Vagabond. 1880. [A short play, presumably based on Buchanan’s poem, ‘Attorney Sneak’, which was presented as an opener for The Nine Days’ Queen and Lady Clare] [review] The Exiles of Erin. [Alternate title: The Mormons.] 1881. [review] The Shadow of the Sword. 1881. [reviews] Lucy Brandon. (An adaptation of Bulwer-Lytton’s Paul Clifford.) 1882. [reviews] Storm-Beaten. (An adaptation of Buchanan’s novel, God and the Man.) 1883. [review] Lady Clare. (An adaptation of Georges Ohnet’s Le Maître de Forges.) 1883. [review] A Sailor and His Lass. (In collaboration with Sir Augustus Harris.) 1883. [reviews] Bachelors. (In collaboration with H. Vezin.) 1884. [review] Constance. 1884. [review] Agnes. (An adaptation of Molière’s L’École des Femmes.) 1885. [review] Alone in London, or, A woman against the world. (In collaboration with Harriett Jay.) 1885. [reviews] Sophia. (An adaptation of Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones.) 1886. [reviews] A Dark Night’s Bridal. 1887. [A one act play, based on a prose sketch by Robert Louis Stevenson, presented as an opener for Sophia.] [review] The Blue Bells of Scotland. 1887. [review] Fascination, or, The way we live. (In collaboration with Harriett Jay.) 1887. [review] Partners. (An adaptation of Daudet’s Fromont Jeune et Risler Ainé.) 1888. [reviews] Joseph’s Sweetheart. (An adaptation of Fielding’s Joseph Andrews.) 1888. [review] That Doctor Cupid. 1889. [review] The Old Home. 1889. [review] A Man’s Shadow. (An adaptation of Jules Mary’s Roger-la-Honte.) 1889. [reviews] Man and the Woman. 1889. [reviews] Clarissa Harlowe. 1890. (An adaptation of Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa.) 1890. [reviews] Miss Tomboy. (An adaptation of Vanbrugh’s The Relapse.) 1890. [review] Theodora. (An adaptation of Victorien Sardou’s Théodora.) 1890. [reviews] The Bride of Love. 1890. [reviews] Sweet Nancy. (An adaptation of Rhoda Broughton’s Nancy.) 1890. [reviews] The English Rose. (In collaboration with G. R. Sims.) 1890. [reviews] The Struggle for Life. (In collaboration with Frederick Horner. An adaptation of Daudet’s La Lutte pour la Vie.) 1890. [review] The Sixth Commandment. (An adaptation of Dostoievsky’s Crime and Punishment.) 1890. [review] Marmion. (An adaptation of the poem by Sir Walter Scott.)1891. [review] The Gifted Lady. 1891. [reviews] The Trumpet Call. (In collaboration with G. R. Sims.) 1891. [review] Squire Kate. (An adaptation of La Fermière by Armand d'Artois and Henri Pagat. A dramatisation of Buchanan’s novel, Come Live with Me and Be My Love.) 1892. [reviews] The White Rose. (An adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's Woodstock. In collaboration with G. R. Sims.) 1892. [reviews] The Lights of Home. (In collaboration with G. R. Sims.) 1892. [review] The Black Domino. (In collaboration with G. R. Sims.) 1893. [review] The Piper of Hamelin: a fantastic Opera in two acts. 1893. Music by F. W. Allwood. [available at the Internet Archive] [reviews] The Charlatan. 1894. [review] Dick Sheridan. 1894. [review] A Society Butterfly. (In collaboration with Henry Murray.) 1894. [reviews] Lady Gladys. 1894. [review] The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown. (Written in collaboration with Charles Marlowe - pseudonym of Harriett Jay. This play was later adapted into the musical comedy, Tulip Time, by Worton David, Alfred Parker and Bruce Sievier.) 1895. [review] The New Don Quixote. (In collaboration with Harriett Jay.) 1896. The Romance of the Shopwalker. (In collaboration with Harriett Jay.) 1896. [reviews] The Wanderer from Venus. (An adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The Wonderful Visit. In collaboration with Harriett Jay.) 1896. [reviews] The Mariners of England. (In collaboration with Harriett Jay.) 1897. [review] Two Little Maids from School. (An adaptation of Les Demoiselles de St. Cyr. In collaboration with Harriett Jay.) 1898. [reviews] The Night Watch. (A one act drama produced posthumously (April, 1902) at a benefit for the Buchanan Memorial Fund.) [review] The Squireen. (Written in collaboration with Aubrey Boucicault.) (n.d.)
8. Miscellaneous Wayside Posies: original poems of the country life. Edited by R. Buchanan. London: G. Routledge & Sons, 1867. The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Edited and prefaced by R. Buchanan. London: E. Moxon & Co., 1869. The Life and Adventures of J. J. Audubon. Edited, from materials supplied by his widow, by Robert Buchanan. London: Sampson Low & Co., 1869. [review] Hon. Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel: Poems of the Hon. Roden Noel. A selection. With an introduction by Robert Buchanan. London, New York: W. Scott, 1892. J. Connell, Poacher: The Truth about the Game Laws: a record of cruelty, selfishness, and oppression. With a preface by Robert Buchanan. London: William Reeves, 1898. [review] Algernon Charles Swinburne: Under the Microscope. [ Buchanan’s contributions to The Athenaeum are listed on The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870 ] __________
Biographical and Critical Writings about Robert Williams Buchanan
1. Books CASSIDY, JOHN A. Robert W. Buchanan. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1973. JAY, HARRIETT. Robert Buchanan. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. (available on this site) [review] STODART-WALKER, ARCHIBALD. Robert Buchanan, the Poet of Modern Revolt. London: Grant Richards, 1901. (available on this site) [review]
2. Essays (Extracted from John A. Cassidy’s list of Secondary Sources in Robert W. Buchanan. The comments in {} brackets are Cassidy’s.) BESANT, WALTER. “Is It the Voice of the Hooligan?” Contemporary Review, LXXVII (January, 1900), 27-39. {Reply to Buchanan’s attack upon Kipling.} (available on this site) CASSIDY, JOHN A. “Robert Buchanan and the Fleshly Controversy,” Publications of the Modern Language Association, LXVII (March, 1952), 65-93. (available on this site) CASSIDY, JOHN A. “The Original Source of Hardy’s Dynasts,” Publications of the Modern Language Association, LXIX (December, 1954), 1085-1100. FAIRCHILD, HOXIE N. “The Immediate Source of The Dynasts,” Publications of the Modern Language Association, LXVII (March, 1952), 43-64. {Shows that Hardy borrowed importantly from Buchanan’s Drama of Kings for The Dynasts.} FAIRCHILD, HOXIE N. “Buchanan and Noel.” Religious Trends in English Poetry. IV. New York: Columbia University Press, 1957. {Compares the poetry of Buchanan and Roden Noel, generally to Buchanan’s disfavor.} FORSYTH, R. A. “Nature and the Victorian City: The Ambivalent Attitude of Robert Buchanan.” English Literary History 36. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1969. (available on this site) HEARN, LAFCADIO. Appreciations of Poetry. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1916. {Critical estimate of Buchanan’s work by a noted critic of the twentieth century.} (available on this site) MILES, ALFRED H. The Poets and Poetry of the Century vol. 6, William Morris to Robert Buchanan. London: Hutchinson, 1896, second edition. MURRAY, HENRY. Robert Buchanan. A Critical Appreciation, and other essays. London: Philip Wellby, 1901. {Criticism by a friend and literary associate of Buchanan.} (available on this site) NOBLE, JAMES A. “Robert Buchanan.” The Poets and the Poetry of the Century. VI. London: Hutchinson and Company, [1896] 5l7-26. {Victorian criticism of Buchanan’s poetry.}(available on this site) NOEL, RODEN. “Robert Buchanan.” Essays on Poetry and Poets. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1886. {Appreciative criticism by a close friend of Buchanan.} (available on this site) SMITH, GEORGE BARNETT. “Robert Buchanan,” Contemporary Review, XXII (1873), 872-902. {Eulogy of Buchanan by one of his friends.} (available on this site) STOREY, GEORGE G. “Robert Buchanan’s Critical Principles,” Publications of the Modern Language Association, LXVIII, 1228—32. {Professor Storey traces Buchanan’s critical principles to those of Goethe and argues that they underlay his personal differences with the Pre-Raphaelites and led to the Fleshly Controversy.} (available on this site) SYMONS, ARTHUR. “Robert Buchanan.” Studies in Prose and Verse. London: J. M. Dent and Company, 1904. {Derogatory view of Buchanan by a young critic sympathetic to the Rossettis.} (available on this site) _____ Additional Essays (published after John A. Cassidy’s 1973 bibliography): NELSON, RAYMOND S. “Shaw and Buchanan.” English Literature in Transition 12 (1969): 99-103. (The play and Robert Buchanan’s poem ‘The Devil’s Case’). MURRAY, CHRISTOPHER D. “D. G. Rossetti, A. C. Swinburne and R. W. Buchanan: The Fleshly School Revisited.” Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester Vol. 65, No. 1 (Autumn 1982) and Vol. 65, No. 2 (Spring 1983). STAUFFER, ANDREW M. “Another Cause for the ‘Fleshly School’ Controversy: Buchanan Versus Ellis.” Journal of Pre–Raphaelite Studies Vol. 11 (2002): 63–67.
3. Miscellaneous SHAW, G. B. The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw. 30 vols. Ayot St. Lawrence Edition. New York: Wm. Wise, 1930-32. (Vols. XXIII XXIV, and XXV contain incidental criticism of Buchanan’s plays during the 1890’s.) SIMS, G. R. Sixty Years’ Recollections of Bohemian London. London: Eveleigh Nash Company, Ltd., 1917. (Reminiscences of Buchanan in the theater by a friend and collaborator.) __________
Filmography
The following films were based on works of Robert Buchanan: Fra Giacone (1913) (presumably based on the poem, Fra Giacomo) Phil Blood’s Leap (1913) Alone in London (1915) (based on the play by Buchanan and Harriett Jay) Master and Man (1915) (based on the play, The Trumpet Call, by Buchanan and George R. Sims) The Charlatan (1916) God and the Man (1918) Matt (1918) A Man’s Shadow (1920) (based on Buchanan’s play, adapted from Jules Mary’s Roger la Honte) The Lights of Home (1920) (based on the play by Buchanan and George R. Sims) The English Rose (1920) (based on the play by Buchanan and George R. Sims) Love in an Attic (1923) (based on the poem, The Little Milliner) La Donna e l’uomo (1923) (based on the novel, The Woman and the Man)
Further information about these films is available here: __________
Musical Adaptations of Buchanan Works The Syren. 1870. Composer: Francesco Berger (1834-1933). The New Covenant. 1888. Composer: Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (1847-1935). Meg Blane, a rhapsody of the sea. 1902. Composer: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912). The Wedding of Shon McLean, a Scottish rhapsody. 1909. Composer: Hubert Bath (1883-1945) The Veil. [Based on The Book of Orm] 1910. Composer: Frederic Hymen Cowen (1852-1935). The Wake of O'Connor, an Irish rhapsody. 1913. Composer: Hubert Bath (1883-1945) Fra Giacomo. 1914. Composer: Cecil Coles (1888-1918). In The Garden. 1915. Composer: William H. Spear (?). The Ballad of Judas Iscariot. 1947. Composer: Richard Purvis (1913-1994) Soliloquy For Autumn. [Includes The Ballad of Judas Iscariot] 1969. Composer: Donald Swann (1923-94). Judas Iscariot. 2005. Composer: Paul Pilott. Further information about the above pieces and their composers is available here: __________
For further details about the various editions of Buchanan’s works: Additional Bibliographic Information
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