Author:Bayard Taylor

James Bayard Taylor
(1825–1878)

James Bayard Taylor

Works

Travel writing

• Views Afoot, or Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff (1846), in 2 vols. [link is to single volume edition of 1852. (external scan)]
  • Views a-foot, Project Gutenberg

Eldorado, or Adventures in the Path of Empire (1850) (external scan)

• Home Authors and Home Artists; or, American Scenery, Art, and Literature (1852) (external scan)
  • "The Scenery of Pennsyvania"
  • "The Erie Railroad"
• A Journey to Central Africa, or Life and Landscapes from Egypt to the Negro Kingdoms of the Nile (1854) (external scan)
• The Land of the Saracens, or Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain (1854) (external scan)
• A Visit to India, China, and Japan in the Year 1853 (1855) (external scan)
• "A Day at St. Helena" (1855) in The Knickerbocker Gallery
• "The Birth of the Prophet" (1855)
• Northern Travel (1857) (external scan)
• Travels in Greece and Russia, with an excursion to Crete (1859) (external scan)
• At Home and Abroad: A Sketch-book of the Life, Scenery, and Men (1859) (external scan)

Novels

• "Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania" (1870)
• "The Story of Kennett"- The Story of Kennett, Project Gutenberg
• "Hannah Thurston: a story of American life" (1868)
• "John Godfrey's Fortunes, related by himself"
• "Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home"
  • Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home, Project Gutenberg

Poetry

• The Poet's Journal (1862) (external scan)

• "The Song in Camp"

• "Beauty and the Beast" in The Atlantic Monthly, 17 (99) (January, 1866)
• "Friedrich Rückert" in The Atlantic Monthly, 18 (105) (1866)
• "To His Horse"
• Poems of the Orient (1855) (transcription project)
• Lars; a Pastoral of Norway, and Other Poems (1873) (start transcription)
• Home Ballads (1882) (start transcription)
• The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor (1892) (start transcription)

Compiler

• Hand-book of literature and the fine arts : comprising complete and accurate definitions of all terms employed in belles-lettres, philosophy, theology, law, mythology, painting, music, sculpture, architecture, and all kindred arts (1852)

Contribution to The American Cyclopædia (1879)

• "Stedman, Edmund Clarence," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)

Translated

• Faust (external scan) (1870–1871, from German)

Works about Taylor

• "The Life and Letters of Bayard Taylor" edited by Marie Hansen-Taylor and Horace Elisha Scudder (1885)
  • Volume 1
  • Volume 2
• "Taylor, Bayard," by E. C. Stedman in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "To Bayard Taylor" by Sidney Lanier (1879)
• "Under the Cedarcroft Chestnut" by Sidney Lanier
• "Bayard Taylor" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1879)
• "Taylor, Bayard," by Edmund Clarence Stedman in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1889)
• "Taylor, Bayard," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Taylor, Bayard," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1875–1889)
• "Taylor, Bayard," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Taylor (James) Bayard," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Taylor, (James) Bayard," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)