Harry Buxton Forman

Standard Name: Forman, Harry Buxton
Used Form: Henry Buxton Forman

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Literary responses Christina Rossetti
CR 's critical reputation stood very high from the appearance of Goblin Market, although she was not a popular poet. H. Buxton Forman in Our Living Poets, 1871, got her middle name wrong...
Literary responses Menella Bute Smedley
Critic Henry Buxton Forman praised the former's delicate touch
Forman, Harry Buxton. Our Living Poets: An Essay in Criticism. Tinsley Brothers.
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in its treatment of the Cambridge student's choice between a political career and religious calling.
Literary responses Menella Bute Smedley
Henry Buxton Forman praised MBS 's poetry in his 1871 book of criticism on living poets. Classing her alongside Tennyson and Jean Ingelow in the Idyllic School, he nevertheless singled out her gift for...
Publishing Elizabeth Barrett Browning
She did not show the poems to Browning until July of 1849; he persuaded her to include them in her next edition of Poems, saying I dared not reserve to myself, the finest sonnets...
Publishing Mary Shelley
In 1876 H. Buxton Forman edited and privately printed a poem by MS entitled The Choice: a Poem on Shelley 's Death. This was reprinted several times in the 1970s.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Augusta Ward
Perhaps the most interesting is her review (March 1884) of Harry Buxton Forman 's recent edition of Keats . Ward argues that the letters to Fanny Brawne ought not to have been made public. (She...

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Texts

Keats, John. “Introduction”. The Poetical Works of John Keats, edited by Harry Buxton Forman, Oxford University Press, 1921, p. ix - lxxxii.
Forman, Harry Buxton. Our Living Poets: An Essay in Criticism. Tinsley Brothers, 1871.
Keats, John, and Harry Buxton Forman. The Poetical Works of John Keats. Oxford University Press, 1921.