Life [ top ] Works [ top ] Criticism [ top ] Quotations On Oscar Wilde: Most sane men will listen on in silence while press and public condemn to eternal punishment and obloquy a supposed criminal who is not yet tried or proved guilty. (Quoted in Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde, Vintage Books 1988; see also Michael S. Foldy, The Trials of Oscar Wilde, Yale Press 1997; quoted in Maria McGavigan, UG Diss, UUC 2009.) Never to bow ...: Never to bow or kneel / To any brazen lie; / To love the worst, to feel / The worst is even as I. / To count all triumph vain / That helps no burdened man; / I thinks so still and so / I end as I began. (verses which Robert Lynd read at Tom Kettles memorial service; quoted in Mary Kettles Memoir prefixed to Kettles posthumous collection, The Ways of War, 1917, p.21.) [ top ] References Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction [Pt. I] (Dublin: Maunsel 1919), lists Father Anthony (1903); also The Peep o Day Boy (n.d.), scarcely worthy of the author as plagiarising Cassells History of Ireland. Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction [Pt II] (Cork: Royal Carbery 1985) adds A Marriage by Capture (1896). John Sutherland, The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction (Longmans 1988; rep. 1989), best remembered as a poet and successful as a wordy playwright; son a Scottish socialist tailor and supporter of Robert Owen; staff of Athenaeum following familys ruin in newspaper speculation; probably most quarrelsome author of his day, he took on the Decadent Movement; Fleshly School, Contemporary Review, Oct. 1871; torrents of fiction, BL 81. [ top ] British Library (BML Catalogue to 1956) holds 88 titles including rep. edns., among which Father Anthony: A Romance of Today (T. Fisher Unwin 1898), 283pp; new eds. 1911; 1913; 1920; The Fleshly School and Other Phenomena of the Day (London: Strahan & Co. 1872), ix, 97pp.; [see also Under the Microscope, a reply to the charges made against Swinburne and others in Buchanans The Fleshly School of Poetry]; The Poetical Works of Robert Buchanan [with port.] 3 vols. (London: HS King & Co. 1874); another Do., another edn. (London: Chatto & Windus 1884), viii, 534pp.; The Complete Poetical Works, 2 vols. (Chatto & Windus 1901); Selected Poems (London: Chatto & Windus 1882), 298pp. [front. by Thomas Dalziel]; also under Harriet Jay, My Connaught Cousins [Pref. by Robert Buchanan] (1883); and Robert Buchanan, Some Account of his Life, his Lifes Work, and his literary friendships (1903). Also Archibald S. Walker, Robert Buchanan, the poet of modern revolt. An introduction to his poetry (1901). [ top ] Eric Stevens Catalogue (1992) lists Robert Buchanan (of Fleshly School of Poetry fame), The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Buchanan, 2 vols. (Chatto and & Windus 1901), 534, 432pp. [£22] Belfast Central Public Library holds six works incl. fiction, Father Anthony (1898); Ballads of Life: Love and Humour (1882); Idylls and Legends (1863); A Marriage by Capture (1896); A Look Around Literature (1887); Undertones (1865); Poems and Love Lyrics [q.d.]. [ top ] Notes W. B. Yeats reviewed a Buchanans novel The Wandering Jew (1893) in Bookman (April 1893) [See John Frayne, ed., Uncollected Prose, Vol. 1 (London: Macmillan 1970), p.263-66.] [ top ] |