SOURCE: A review of The Wandering Jew, in The Bookman, London, Vol. IV, No. 19, April, 1893, p. 21.

In the following review, Yeats faults The Wandering Jew with intellectual deficiency.

De La Motte Fouqué in one of his romances describes the Father of Evil as having a face that no man could remember, and a name that sounded “Greek and noble,” but passed out of men's minds as soon as it was uttered. I find Mr. Buchanan's new poem [The Wandering Jew] well-nigh as hard to remember now that I take it up a month after first reading it. I have a vague recollection of something vehement, insistent, eloquent, and chaotic, with here and there a touch or two of serener beauty. I recollect also that while I was reading it Mr. Buchanan was hurling no less vehement, insistent, eloquent, and chaotic expostulations at the head of one who liked...