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Professor of English Literature, Columbia University
This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "W. P. T."
This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "W. P. T."
Works
- William Gilmore Simms (1892) (external scan)
- Notes on recent work in southern history (1892) (external scan)
- Teaching the Spirit of Literature (1896) (external scan)
- Southern Statesmen of the Old Régime (1897) (external scan)
- John Milton; a short story of his life and works (1899)
- The authority of criticism, and other essays (1899) (external scan)
- Robert E. Lee (1899) (external scan)
- Progress of the United States of America in the century (1901) (external scan)
- A history of American literature, 1607-1865 (1903) (external scan)
- A Brief History of American Literature (1904) (external scan)
- Greatness in literature, and other papers (1905) (external scan)
- Longfellow, and Other Essays (1910) (external scan)
- An introduction to the English classics'' (1911) (external scan)
as editor
- John Milton's L'allegro, Il penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas (1895), by John Milton (external scan)
- ''Essay on Milton and The Life and Writings of Addison by Thomas Babington Macaulay, (1896) (external scan)
- Poems and Tales from the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, 1898 (external scan)
- The poems of Robert Louis Stevenson, 1900 (external scan)
- Colonial prose and poetry with Benjamin Willis Wells, 1901 vol 1, vol 2, vol 3
- Typee; life in the South seas by Herman Melville, 1902 (external scan)
- The complete works of Edmund Spenser, 1903 (external scan)
- A journey in the seaboard slave states in the years 1853-1854 by Frederick Law Olmsted, 1904 (external scan)
- The complete works of William Makepeace Thackeray, 1904 (external scan)
- The nabob; by Alphonse Daudet, 1904 (external scan)
- Johnson and Goldsmith, essays by Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1906 (external scan)
- Sohrab and Rustum by Matthew Arnold, 1906 (external scan)
- The best American tales chosen, 1907 (external scan)
Contributions to NIE
- "Emerson, Ralph Waldo," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- "Jackson, Andrew," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- "Jefferson, Thomas," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- "Lincoln, Abraham," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- "Transcendentalism," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905) With Evander Bradley McGilvary.
- "Washington, George," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- "Whitman, Walt," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
Contributions to Americana
- "Johnson, Samuel (man of letters)," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Keats, John," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Rasselas," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Robinson Crusoe," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Vanity of Human Wishes, The," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
Contribution to EB1911
- "Lanier, Sidney," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Works about Trent
- "Trent, William Peterfield," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- "Trent, William Peterfield," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.
The author died in 1939, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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