Author:Nathaniel Parker Willis

Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806–1867)

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Works

Essay and poetry collections

• Sketches (1827)
• Melanie and Other Poems (London, 1835)
• Pencillings by the Way (1835)
• Inklings of Adventure (1836)
• À l'Abri; or, The Tent Pitched (1839)
• Loiterings of Travel (1840)
• Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil (1845)
• Rural Letters and Other Records of Thoughts at Leisure (1849)
• People I Have Met (1850)
• Life Here and There (1850)
• Hurrygraphs (1851)
• Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean (1853)
• Fun Jottings; or, Laughs I have taken a Pen to (1853)
• Health Trip to the Tropics (1854)
• Ephemera (1854)
• Famous Persons and Places (1854)
• Out Doors at Idlewild; or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson (1855)
• The Rag Bag. A Collection of Ephemera (1855)
• The Convalescent (1859)

Individual poems

• "Andre's Request to Washington" (1835)
• "The Annoyer" (1829)
• "April" (1829)
• "The Belfry Pigeon" (1835)
• "Birth-day Verses"
• "The Declaration" (1829)
• "Florence Gray"
• "Idleness" (1838)
• "January 1, 1829" (1829)
• "The Lady in the White Dress, Whom I Helped Into the Omnibus" (1844)
• "The Mother to her Child"
• "On the Death of a Young Girl" (1835)
• "On Witnessing a Baptism" (1835)
• "Reverie at Glenmary"
• "Saturday Afternoon"
• "Spring"
• "To Ermengarde"
• "To a Face Beloved" (1837)
• "To Giulia Grisi"
• "To Helen in a Huff"
• "Unseen Spirits" (1846)

Individual prose works

• "Miss Albina McLush"

Novels

• Paul Fane; or, Parts of a Life Else Untold. A Novel (1857)

Works about Willis

• "On the death of Mrs. N. P. Willis" by Anne Lynch Botta
• "The Duc de L'Omelette" (1832) by Edgar Allan Poe parodies Willis
• N. P. Willis (1846) by Poe in the series The Literati of New York
• A Fable for Critics (1848) by James Russell Lowell
• "N. P. Willis" (1867?) by Samuel Francis Smith
• "Nathaniel Parker Willis" (1885) by Henry Augustin Beers IA
• "Willis, Nathaniel Parker," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Willis, Nathaniel Parker," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• The Cambridge History of English Literature (1917–1921)