Author:William Peterfield Trent

William Peterfield Trent
(1862–1939)

William Peterfield Trent

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)