Bulwer-Lytton, Robert (pseudonym Owen Meredith), First Earl of Lytton; Viceroy of India (M)

Surname: Bulwer-Lytton
Forename(s): Edward Robert
b. 8 November 1831. d. 24 November 1891. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet and diplomat. Pseudonym: Owen Meredith. Alternative signature: Lytton. Son of Edward and Rosina Bulwer Lytton. Close friends with Charles Dickens and John Forster, serving as an executor for the latter upon his death. Served as a diplomat in Washington, The Hague, Vienna, Madrid, Paris, and Lisbon. Viceroy of India (1876-1880). Returned to England and was created Earl of Lytton in 1880. Author of several volumes of poetry including Clytemnestra, The Earl’s Return and Other Poems (1855), The Wanderer (1857), Orval, or, The Fool in Time (1869), Chronicles and Characters (1868), and Fables in Song (1874). Biographical information: ODNB. (JS)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 57
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Kant and His Interpreters 1842-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10800
The Alternative 1842-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10799
The Four Ages of the World 1842-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10808
Hero and Leander.—A Ballad 1842-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10801
The Knights of St John 1842-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10807
The Two Guides of Life—The Sublime and the Beautiful 1842-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10806
Dithyramb 1842-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10805
Fridolin; or, The Message to the Forge 1842-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10803
Cassandra 1842-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10802
The Maiden from Afar 1842-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10804
The Chess-Board 1860-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 7788
Fair Rosamond. A Fragment. 1861-03-09 Once a Week Poet 435
Adolfus, Duke of Guelders. Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries 1861-03-30 All the Year Round Poet 2850
Elisabetta Sirani. 1665 1861-04 The Cornhill Magazine Poet 11983
Christian, the Dol Hertzog (So Called from his Furious Behaviour.) 1660 1861-04-06 All the Year Round Poet 2852
Mohammed 1861-04-13 All the Year Round Poet 2853
A Conjugal Dispute 1861-05-25 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 6593
Old and New 1861-06-01 All the Year Round Poet 2858
Day-Dreams 1861-06-22 All the Year Round Poet 2860
The Starling 1861-07-06 All the Year Round Poet 2862
Rabbi Ben Ephraim’s Treasure 1861-10-19 All the Year Round Poet 2879
Fair Urience 1862-01-11 All the Year Round Poet 2887
Melancholia 1862-01-18 All the Year Round Poet 2888
A Great Man 1862-02-25 All the Year Round Poet 2889
The Dead Pope 1862-03-22 All the Year Round Poet 2891
Droppings 1862-05-31 All the Year Round Poet 2897
Side by Side 1862-06-14 All the Year Round Poet 2899
Form 1862-12-13 All the Year Round Poet 2909
Method 1862-12-27 All the Year Round Poet 2911
Before the Trial by Combat 1863-02-14 All the Year Round Poet 2915
King and Queen 1863-10-31 All the Year Round Poet 3079
Genseric 1863-12-26 All the Year Round Poet 3081
The Siege of Ravenna 1864-01-02 All the Year Round Poet 3082
Farewell to the Holy Lands. (Twelfth Century) 1864-01-09 All the Year Round Poet 3083
Richelieu 1864-01-23 All the Year Round Poet 3085
The Boy and the Ring 1864-03-19 All the Year Round Poet 3161
The Eyes of Mahmūd 1864-04-30 All the Year Round Poet 3166
A Beaten Army 1864-05-28 All the Year Round Poet 3169
The Pilgrim of the Desert 1865-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9683
The True Joy-Giver 1865-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9684
Mabel May 1865-05-20 All the Year Round Poet 3191
Misery 1866-01-20 All the Year Round Poet 3205
Crœsus and Adrastus. (Herodotus i. 35) 1866-01-27 All the Year Round Translator 3206
Cintra. A Windy Day in the South 1868-09-12 All the Year Round Poet 3310
Christmas Eve. A Poem. Paraphrase 1869-01 The Cornhill Magazine Translator 12014
Auriel 1869-09-04 All the Year Round Poet 3702
A Confession and Apology 1869-09-11 All the Year Round Poet 3703
Reproach 1870-01-01 All the Year Round Poet 3803
Love’s Sunrise 1870-03-19 All the Year Round Poet 3814
A Farewell 1870-07-09 All the Year Round Poet 4531
Love and Time 1870-10-01 All the Year Round Poet 3835
The Thistle 1874-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10208
Who’s in the Right 1874-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10196
The Blue Mountains; or the Far 1874-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10207
A Legend 1874-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10211
Dates and Dates 1874-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10214
The Land of Promise: A Fable 1883-04 The Nineteenth Century Poet 8072