LIST OF REFERENCES1 BRYANT EDITIONS *THE LIFE AND WORKS OF WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, 6 volumes: vols. i and ii, Biography; vols. iii and iv, The Poetical Works; vols. v and vi, Prose Writings: D. Appleton & Co., 188384. (The standard edition, edited by Parke Godwin.)- THE POETICAL WORKS, Roslyn Edition: D. Appleton & Co., 1903. (An excellent edition, complete except the translations from Homer - in one volume; with chronologies, bibliography, etc.) - THE ILIAD OF HOMER, translated into English Blank Verse; THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER, translated into English Blank Verse: Roslyn Edition, 4 volumes; Students' Edition, 2 volumes: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES *GODWIN (Parke), Biography of William Cullen Bryant, with extracts from his private correspondence, 1883. (The standard biography.)-*BIGELOW (John), William Cullen Bryant (American Men of Letters Series), 1890. - *BRADLEY (W. A.), Bryant (English Men of Letters Series), 1905. BARTLETT (D. W.), Modern Agitators, or Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers, 1855. – BROWN (E. R.), The Life and Poems of John Howard Bryant, 1899. (Containing in the biographical sketch many allusions to William Cullen Bryant also.) - BUNGAY (George W.), OffHand Takings; or Crayon Sketches of the Noticeable Men of our Age: Biography of Bryant, 1854. — *CENTURY ASSOCIATION (N. Y.), The Bryant Festival at The Century,' Nov. 5, 1864. (An account of the celebration of Bryant's seventieth birthday, containing Lowell's poem On Board the Seventy-Six, poems by Holmes, Whittier, Bayard Taylor, George H. Boker, Thomas Buchanan Read, Julia Ward Howe, R. H. Stoddard, H. T. Tuckerman, etc., and addresses by Emerson, Bancroft, Samuel Osgood, etc.), 1865. - CENTURY ASOCIATION (N. Y.), Bryant Memorial Meeting of the Century, Nov. 12, 1878. (Containing Stedman's The Death of Bryant, Bayard Taylor's Epicedium, R. H. Stoddard's The Dead Master, and an oration by John Bigelow.)- CUMMINGTON, Mass., Bryant Centennial Celebration. (Containing addresses by Parke Godwin, E. R. Brown, John Bigelow, Charles Dudley Warner, John White Chadwick, Charles Eliot Norton, G. Stanley Hall, etc., and poems by Julia Ward Howe and John H. Bryant), 1894. - *CURTIS (G. W.), Orations and Addresses, vol. iii: William Cullen Bryant: His Life, Character, and Writings. A Commemorative Address, Dec. 30, 1878.— DERBY (J. C.), Fifty Years among Authors, 1884. FINLEY (John H.) and CALKINS (E. E.), The Bryant Centennial; a Book about a Day, Galesburg, 1894.- GODWIN (Parke), Commemorative Addresses. -GREER (F. H.), William Cullen Bryant, in Universal Biography of Men of Mark of the Nineteenth Century. - HAWTHORNE, Passages from French and Italian Note-Books: May 22, 1858. - HILL (D. J.), William Cullen Bryant (American Authors), 1879. — KIRKLAND (Mrs. C.), William Cullen Bryant in Homes of American Authors, 1853; the same, in Little Journeys to the Homes of American Authors, 1896.-PALMER (Ray), Biography of Bryant, 1877.- POWERS (H. N.), William Cullen Bryant: in R. H. Stoddard's The Homes and Haunts of our Elder Poets. -SYMINGTON (A. J.), William Cullen Bryant, a biographical sketch, with selections, 1880. — TAYLOR (Mrs. Bayard), On Two Continents, 1905. — TUCKERMAN (H. T.), Thoughts on the Poets, 1846. - WALSH (William Shepard), Pen Pictures of Modern Authors, 1882. (Quotations from Hawthorne, John Bigelow, etc.) — WHITMAN, Specimen Days, June 13-14, 1878: Death of William Cullen Bryant. (Complete Prose Works, pp 106-107.)- WILSON (J. G.), Bryant and his Friends: some reminiscences of the Knickerbocker writers, 1885. -*(The Diary of a Poet's Mother, a 1 The more important books and essays are marked with an asterisk. For explanations regarding the arrangement of the Reference-Lists, see Preface. daily record kept by Mrs. Bryant for fifty-three years, is announced for early publication; it is to be edited by Professor Richard Jones.) CRITICISM ALDEN (Joseph), Studies in Bryant, with an introduction by William Cullen Bryant. (An ele mentary school text, with questions on the poems.) — BURTON (R.), Literary Leaders. - CHeney (J. V.), That Dome in Air. *COLLINS (Churton), The Poetry and Poets of America. -HAR TUNG (A. E. G.), Ueber Robert Burns poetische Episteln und über den nordamerikanischen Dichter William Cullen Bryant. - HOWE (M. A. DeW.), American Bookmen. - MATTHEWS (B.), Introduction to the Study of American Literature, chapter vi. — MITCHELL (D. G.), American Lands and Letters. — NADAL (E. S.), Essays at Home and Elsewhere. - NEWCOMER (A. G.), American Literature. NICHOL (John), American Literature, an Historical Sketch. - OSGOOD (Rev. Samuel), Bryant among his Countrymen: The Poet, the Patriot, the Man. — OTTO (W.), William Cullen Bryants poetische Werke und Uebersetzungen.-PALMER (G. H.), William Cullen Bryant in Atlas Essays, New York, 1877. — PATTEE (Fred Lewis), History of American Literature. - POE (Edgar Allan), Works, Virginia Edition: vol. viii, pp. 1, 2, Poems, by William Cullen Bryant (January, 1835); vol. ix, pp. 268-305, Poems, by William Cullen Bryant, Fourth Edition (June, 1837); vol. x, pp. 85-96, A Notice of William Cullen Bryant (May, 1840); vol. xiii, pp. 125-141, William Cullen Bryant (April, 1846). — See also vol. xi, pp. 150, 194, 195, 223. - POET-LORE, How to Study Bryant's Thanatopsis, in Poet-Lore, vol. vi, pp. 520–526. POWELL (Thomas), Living Authors of America, 1850.- RICHARDSON (C. F.), American Literature, vol. ii.-SAUNDERS (Frederic), Character Studies. - SHEPARD (W. S.), The Literary Life. *STEDMAN (E. C.), Poets of America. - STEWART (George, Jr.). Evenings in the Library STODDARD (R. H.), Introduction to the Household' and 'Roslyn' editions. - TAYLOR (Bayard), Critical Essays and Literary Notes.--THAYER (W. R.), Throne-makers and Portraits. - TRENT (W. P.). A History of American Literature. - VINCENT (L. H.), American Literary Masters, 1905.-WHIPPLE (E. P.), Literature and Life.—WHIPPLE (E. P.), Men of Mark.*WHITMAN, Specimen Days, April 16, 1881: My Tribute to Four Poets. (Complete Prose Works, pp. 173, 174.) — WILKINSON (W. C.), A Free Lance in the Field of Life and Letters: Mr. Bryant's Poetry.—WILSON (John), Essays, critical and imaginative: American Poetry, Bryant. (Originally in Blackwood's Magazine, 1832; vol. xxxi, pp. 646–664. A generous early appreciation of Bryant.) - WOODBERRY (G. E.), America in Literature, chapter ii. TRIBUTES IN VERSE BATES (Charlotte Fiske), Risk and Other Poems: The Poet's Birthplace; The Poet's Death; The Birthday after Death. - BOKER (G. H.), Bryant, Nov. 5, 1864.- *CHADWICK (J. W.), Later Poems, William Cullen Bryant: Read on the Hundredth Anniversary of his Birth. - HAYNE (Paul H.), Bryant Dead. *HOLMES, Bryant's Seventieth Birthday. HOWE (Julia Ward), A Leaf from the Bryant Chaplet. -*LOWELL, Fable for Critics. (Poetical Works, Cambridge Edition, pp. 131, 132.) — *LowELL, On Board the Seventy-six. — READ (T. B.), To Bryant STEDMAN, The Death of Bryant. *STODDARD (R. H.), Vates Patriae. - TAYLOR (Bayard), Epicedium, William Cullen Bryant.- TUCKERMAN (H. T.), To William Cullen Bryant on his Seventieth Birthday.- WHITTIER, To a Poetical Trio in the City of Gotham. (Satirical. Written in 1832. Poetical Works, Cambridge Edition, p. 510.)-*WHITTIER, Bryant on his Birthday, 1864. POE *COMPLETE WORKS, Virginia Edition, 17 volumes (including Biography and Letters), edited by James A. Harrison: T. Y. Crowell & Co., 1902. (The standard edition, superseding all others, both by its completeness - especially in the section of criticism—and by its carefully edited text.) - WORKS, 4 volumes, edited, with a memoir, by R. W. Griswold, and with notices of Poe's life and genius by N. P. Willis and J. R. Lowell, New York, 1850-56, etc. (Badly arranged and unreliable. The Memoir in particular is not to be trusted.)-WORKS, 4 volumes, edited by John H. Ingram, Edinburgh, 1874-75, etc. (The best British edition.) WORKS, 6 volumes, edited, with memoir, by R. H. Stoddard: New York, A. C. Armstrong & Son, 1884. (The memoir is unsatisfactory.) — *WORKS, 10 volumes, edited, with a memoir, critical introductions, and notes, by E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry: Stone & Kimball, Chicago, 1894-95. WORKS, 10 volumes, Knickerbocker Edition, with introduction by Charles F. Richardson: G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1904. THE RAVEN AND OTHER POEMS: Wiley & Putnam, New York, 1845. — POETICAL WORKS, with a notice of his life and genius, by James Hannay, London, 1852, etc. — POETICAL WORKS with memoir by C. F. Briggs, London and New York, 1858, etc.- POEMS, with memoir by R. H. Stoddard, New York, 1872, etc. - POEMS, with an essay on his poetry by Andrew Lang, London, 1881, etc. POEMS AND ESSAYS, edited, with memoir, by John H. Ingram, London, 1884.-POETICAL WORKS, Canterbury Poets' Edition, London, 1886.-THE RAVEN, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, AND OTHER POEMS AND TALES, edited by W. P. Trent, Riverside Literature Series, 1897.- THE BEST POEMS AND ESSAYS OF POE, edited, with a new biographical and critical study, by Sherwin Cody, 1903. - POEMS, edited by Charles W. Kent, Macmillan's Pocket Classics, 1904. (There are many other one-volume editions of the poems, none of them to be fully trusted. Most of them follow the bad arrangement of the 1845 edition.) BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES See the Griswold, Hannay, Briggs, Ingram, Stoddard, Stedman-Woodberry, Lang, Richardson, Cody, and Kent editions mentioned above. *HARRISON (J. A.), Life and Letters of Edgar Allan Poe, 2 volumes, 1903. (Also as vol. i and vol. xvii of the Virginia Edition of Poe's Works.) (The latest full biography. More than half of the Letters are here published for the first time.) - DIDIER (E. L.), The Life and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, 1876.- INGRAM (John H.), Edgar Allan Poe, in Atlas Essays, no. 2, 1877. - GILL (W. F.), Life of Poe, London, 1878.- INGRAM (John H.), Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters and Opinions. 2 volumes, London, 1880; second edition, 1 volume, 1886. (This biography is perhaps the fairest and best-balanced in its judgment of Poe, but is now somewhat out of date. In the second edition no account was taken of new facts brought out by Prof. Woodberry.) — *WOODBERRY (G. E.), Edgar Allan Poe (American Men of Letters Series), 1885. (The first life of Poe based on thorough investigation of the facts; and still the best critically; but unsympathetic.) — LAUVRIÈRE (E.), Edgar Poe, sa vie et son œuvre, 1904. (A thorough study; emphasizing pathological considerations.) *TRENT (W. P.), Edgar Allan Poe. (Soon to be published, in the English Men of Letters Series; and likely to prove the best brief biography.) BENTON (Joel), In the Poe Circle; with some account of the Poe-Chivers controversy, and other Poe memorabilia, 1899. — DARGAN (Olive T.), Semiramis and Other Plays, 1904. (The third play, 'The Poet,' deals with Poe.) GILDERSLEEVE (B. L.), Poe as a Lecturer: in Harrison's New Glimpses of Poe. -GRISWOLD (R. W.), Correspondence. - HARRISON (J. A.), New Glimpses of Poe, 1901. — KENT (Charles W.), The Unveiling of the Bust of Edgar Allan Poe in the Library of the University of Virginia, October 7, 1899; being an account of Poe's connection with the University of Virginia, etc. - MINOR (B. B.), The Southern Literary Messenger, 1834 to 1863, 1905. - MORAN (John J.), A Defense of Edgar Allan Poe, 1885. - RICE (Sara S.), Edgar Allan Poe: A Memorial Volume, 1877. - STODDARD (R. H.), Recollections, Personal and Literary, edited by Ripley Hitchcock, 1904.-WALSH (William Shepard), The Literary Life: Edgar Allan Poe. WEISS (Susan A. T.), The Last Days of Edgar Allan Poe: in Scribner's, March, 1878.-WEISS (Susan A. T.), Reminiscences of Poe: in the Independent, May 5 and August 25, 1904: vol. lvi, p. 1010; vol. lvii. p. 443. - *WHITMAN (Sarah Helen), Poe and his Critics, 1860; second edition, 1885.- WHITMAN (Walt), Specimen Days: Broadway Sights (Prose Works, p. 12.)—WILLIS (N. P.), Hurrygraphs, 1851. (Also in Griswold's and other editions of Poe's Works.) WILSON (J. G.), Bryant and his Friends. - WOODBERRY (G. E.), The Poe-Chivers Papers: in the Century, January and February, 1903: vol. xliii, pp. 435-47, and 545-58. - NEWCOMER (A. G.), The Poe-Chivers Tradition reëxamined in the Sewanee Review, January, 1904: vol. xii, p. 20. CRITICISM BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules), Littérature étrangère. · BARINE (Arvède) [Mme. Cécile Vincens], Névrosés: Hoffmann; Quincey; Edgar Poe; Gérard de Nerval. — BARRETT (Elizabeth), in Horne's Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter of May 12, 1845. — BAUDELAIRE (Charles), Edgar Poe, sa vie et ses œuvres in his Histoires extraordinaires, translated from Poe.- BAUDELAIRE (Charles), Notes nouvelles; in his Nouvelles Histoires extraordinaires. |