Author:William Peterfield Trent
Works
edit- 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
edit- 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)
- "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)
- "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)
- "Lanier, Sidney," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Works about Trent
edit- "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, 1929.
This author died in 1939, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 84 years or less. These works may 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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