B.,
P.,
R. B.,
W. B.,
Thomas Maitland,
Walter Hutcheson,and
John Banks.Alternative signatures:
R. W. Buchanan,
R. Williams Buchanan,
Williams Buchanan,and
Robert Buchanan.Son of Robert Buchanan. Born at Caverswall, Staffordshire, but moved to Glasgow in 1850. Continued to move between England and Scotland throughout his life. Contributed to The Athenaeum and All the Year Round. Author of the notorious review,
The Fleshly School of Poetry(1871), which controversially attacked the poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Charles Swinburne. Biographical information: ODNB. (CC, AC, NM)