BOOK LIST
Individual Authors
Washington Irving. First posthumous complete edition. New York, 1860–1861. 21 vols. These appeared originally as follows: Salmagundi, 1807–1808; History of New York, 1809; The Sketch Book, 1819; Bracebridge Hall, 1822; Jonathan Oldstyle, 1824; Tales of a Traveller, 1824; Columbus, 1828; Conquest of Granada, 1829; Companions of Columbus, 1831; The Alhambra, 1832; The Crayon Miscellany, 1835; Astoria, 1836; Captain Bonneville, 1837; Goldsmith, 1849; Mahomet, 1839–1850; Wolfert’s Roost, 1855; Washington, 1855–1859; Uncollected Miscellanies, 1866.
Bibliography
Compiled by Shirley V. Long for Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. I, pp. 510–517.
Biography and Criticism
The standard life of Washington Irving is by P. M. Irving, The Life and Letters of Washington Irving. 1862–1864. 1864, 1879, 1883. 4 vols.
Boynton, H. W. Washington Irving. Boston, 1901.
Bryant, W. C. A Discourse on the Life, Character, and Genius of Washington Irving, 1860.
Curtis, G. W. Irving’s Knickerbocker. Critic, Vol. III. 1883.
Curtis, G. W. Washington Irving, in Literary and Social Essays. 1894.
Hazlitt, William. Elia, and Geoffrey Crayon, in The Spirit of the Age. 1825.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Irving’s Power of Idealization. Critic, Vol. III. 1883.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Tribute to Irving. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings. 1858–1860.
Howells, William Dean. My Literary Passions. 1895.
Longfellow, H. W. Tribute to Irving. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings. 1858–1860.
Lowell, J. R. A Fable for Critics. 1848.
Payne, W. M. Leading American Essayists. 1910.
Poe, E. A. Irving’s Astoria. Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. III. 1837.
Putnam, G. H. Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. I, Bk. II, chap. iv.
Thackeray, W. M. Nil Nisi Bonum. Cornhill Magazine, Vol. I. 1860. Harper’s, Vol. XX. 1860.
Warner, C. D. American Men of Letters Series. 1881.
Warner, C. D. Irving’s Humor. Critic, Vol. III. 1883.
Warner, C. D. Washington Irving. Atlantic, Vol. XLV. 1880.
Warner, C. D. The Work of Washington Irving. 1893.
Fitz-Greene Halleck, The Poetical Works of. New York, 1847, 1850, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1858, 1859. Poetical writings with extracts from those of Joseph Rodman Drake. J. G. Wilson, editor. 1869, 1885. (These editions include the Croaker Papers.) These appeared originally as follows: Fanny, 1819; Alnwick Castle with Other Poems, 1827; Fanny and Other Poems, 1839; Young America, a Poem, 1865; Lines to the Recorder, 1866.
Biography and Criticism
The standard life is The Life and Letters of Fitz-Greene Halleck. J. G. Wilson. 1869.
Bryant, W. C. Some Notices on the Life and Writings of Fitz-Greene Halleck. 1869.
Dennett, J. R. The Knickerbocker School. Nation, Dec. 6, 1867.
Duyckinck, E. A. Fitz-Greene Halleck, in Putnam’s Magazine. 1868.
Leonard, W. E. Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. I, Bk. II, in chap. v.
Poe, E. A. Fitz-Greene Halleck, in Complete Works, Vol. VIII. 1902.
Tuckerman, H. T. Reminiscences of Fitz-Greene Halleck, in Lippincott’s Magazine. 1868.
Wilson, J. G. Bryant and his Friends. 1886.
Collections
Boynton, Percy H. American Poetry, pp. 147–168, 626–629.
Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L. Cyclopedia of American Literature, Vol. II, pp. 207–212.
Griswold, R. W. Poets and Poetry of America. 1842.
Stedman and Hutchinson. Library of American Literature, Vol. V, pp. 216–225.
Joseph Rodman Drake. Poems by Croaker, Croaker and Co., and Croaker, Jr. First printed in the New York Evening Post. 1819. Reprinted as a pamphlet, 1819. The Culprit Fay and Other Poems. 1835. The American Flag. 1861.
Biography and Criticism
Corning, A. L. Joseph Rodman Drake. Bookman. 1915.
Howe, M. A. DeW. American Bookmen. 1898.
Poe, E. A. Fancy and Imagination. Complete Works, Vol. VII. 1902.
Wells, J. L. Joseph Rodman Drake Park. 1904.
Wilson, J. G. Bryant and his Friends. 1886.
Wilson, J. G. Joseph Rodman Drake, in Harper’s Magazine. June, 1874.
Collections
Boynton, Percy H. American Poetry, pp. 136–153, 624–626.
Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L. Cyclopedia of American Literature, Vol. I, pp. 201–207.
Griswold, R. W. Poets and Poetry of America. 1842.
Stedman and Hutchinson. Library of American Literature, Vol. V, pp. 363–379.