“Unfortunately, I can’t afford to be a poet only—I wish I could, for…” — Robert Williams Buchanan

“Unfortunately, I can’t afford to be a poet only—I wish I could, for poetry alone gives me real happiness, not for any reward it yields in pence or praise.”

Separating the inward value of poetry from money and reputation · Letter to George R. Sims

Robert Williams Buchanan

About Robert Williams Buchanan

18 August 1841–10 June 1901

On a warm August morning in 1841, in the quiet Staffordshire village of Caverswall, Robert Williams Buchanan was born on August 18. He entered a world already marked by ideological fervor and social upheaval, for his father, Robert Buchanan senior, was no ordinary parent but a passionate advocate of Robert Owen's…

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