Text: Helen Lucile Watts, “Bibliography,” Poe's The Life and Writings of Henry Beck Hirst of Philadelphia Story, Masters Thesis, 1925


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PART III — BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. References for Biography and Criticism.

Anderson Galleries: Catalogue of the Sporting Library of Mr. William Brewster of New York City, with a Rare Offering of Original Manuscripts and Letters of Edgar Allan Poe, sold for the account of a descendant of Henry B. Hirst, author of “Endymion”, to whom many of the letters are addressed. New York: Anderson Galleries. 1921, No. 1583.

Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography. New York: Appleton, 1887.

Baldwin, Dane Lewis, and others: Concordance to the Poems of John Keats. The Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1917.

Duyckinck, E.A. and G.L.: Cyolopedia of American Literature. Philadelphia: William Rutter and Co., 1877.

Ellis, F.S.: A Lexical Concordance to the Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1892.

English, Thomas Drum: “Recollections”, in The Independent. (N.Y.); Vol. 40, p. 182. Oct. ip, 1896.

Graham's Magazine: Review rof Hirst's Endymion. Vol, 35, p. 5’/. July, 1848.

Graham's Magazine: Review of Hirst's Penance of Roland. Vol. 35, p. 252. October, 184?.

Griswold, Rufus W.; Poets and Poetry of America. 10th Edition, 1850. (Account of Hirst on pp. 439-441 ).

Griswold, W.M.: Passages from the Correspondence and Other Papers of. Rufus W. Griswold. Cambridge, Mass.: W.M. Griswold, 1898.

Keats, John: The Poetical Works of John Keats, edited by H. Buxton Forman. Oxford University Press, 1920.

Lowell, Amy: John Keats. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1925. (Especially Volume I, Chapter V, on Keats's “Endymion”)

Martin, John Hill: Bench and Bar Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Rees Welsh and Co., 1883.

New York Times: Obituary notice of Hirst. April 1, 1874, p. 4, column 7. [page 142:]

Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson: The Literary History of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Geo. W. Jacobs & Co., November, 1906.

Philadelphia Directories

(a) Desilver's Philadelphia Directory and Stranger's Guide. for 1823 and 1828.

(b) McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory, for 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1852, 1855, 1857, 1859, and 1863.

Poe, Edgar Allan: The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Harrison Edition. New York: T.Y. Crowell & Co., 1902.

Poe, Edgar Allan: The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Hillis Campbell. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1917.

Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Literati of New York City. No. III. Thomas Dunn English.” In Godey's Lady's Book. Vol. 33, p. 17.

Poe, Edgar Allan: Review of “Florist's Guide”, in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. 6, p. 250. May, 1840.

Sartain, John: The Reminiscences of a Very Old Man. 1808-1897. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899.

Scharf, J. Thomas, and Westcott, Thompson: History of Philadelphia 1609-1884. Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co. 1884.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe: The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Oxford University Press. 1921.

Stedman, Edmund Clarence: An American Anthology. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1900.

Tennyson, Alfred Lord: The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Student's Cambridge Edition. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1898.

Union Magazine (N.Y.): Review of Endymion. Vol. 3, p. 48. (July, 1848 ).

White's National Cyclopedia American Biography. New York: Jas. T. White & Co., 1906.

Willis, Nathaniel Parker: Review of the first canto of Hirst's Endymion, in Weekly New Mirror (N.Y.): Vol. III. pp. 271 and 272. (July 27, 1844)

Wolfe, Theodore F.: Letter on “Poe and Hirst”, in New York Times. Feb. 13, 1904, Book Review Supplement, p, 107.

Woodberry, George B.: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe. Boston and New York; Houghton Mifflin Co., 1909. [page 143:]

2. The Writings of Henry B. Hirst.

a.) Books

1 - The Book of Cage Birds.. Philadelphia: Bernard Duke 117 Chestnut Street. Third Edition, 1843.

2 - The Coming of the Mammoth, the Funeral of Time, and other Poems. Boston: Phillips and Samson, 1845.

3 - Endymion. A Tale of Greece. Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 184b.

4 - The Penance of Roland, a Romance of the Peine Forte et Dure; and other Poems. Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1849.

b.) Manuscript Poems

1 - Sonnet. “Liansdowne”. Dated July 12th, 1841. MS in the possession of Dr. Thos. O. Mabbott, New York City.

2 - “The Autumn Wind”. Undated. MS in the New York Public Library. (Printed in the Ladies’ Companion, Dec., 1841). [page 144:]

c.) Publications in Periodicals (arranged by years, with magazines under each year given alphabetically)

1841

Ladies’ Companion. N.Y.

(1) 1 - The Autumn Wind (December) p.57

1842

Ladies’ Companion. N.Y.

1 - Stanzas — To My Own One (May) p. 35

2 - To a Favorite Oak (June) p. 99

3 - Leonore, a Lament (August) p. 202

4 - To a Ruined Fountain (Sept.) p. 277

5 - Sophie (Oct.) p. 309

1843

Ladies’ Companion

(2) 1- Elenor Long. (June) p. 99

2 - Egeria (July) p. 145

(2) 3 - I Give Thee All I May, Love (August) p. 178

(1) 4 - The Minds of Eld (Sonnet) (Sept.) p. 219

(1) 5 - The Passage of the Birds (Sept.) p. 253

(by Mrs. Anna Maria Hirst)

(1) 6 - Everard Grey (Oct.) p.290 [page 145:]

1843. Continued.

Southern Literary Messenger (Vol. 9)

(1) 1 - Sonnets (by Anna M. Hirst)

a - Life

b - Loneliness (December) p. 749

1844

Godey's Lady's Book (Philadelphia)

1- Underneath thy Lattic, Loye. A Serenade. (Words and music — words by Hirst) (January) p. 5l

Ladies’ Companion (Vol. 20)

1 - Sonnets to the Poets. (Bryant, Lowell, Conrad, and Whittier) (January) p. 150

(2) 2 - Mary, a Memory (by Anna M. Hirst) (January) p. 151

3 - Ligeia (February) p. 212

(1) 4 - The Owl (by Anna M. Hirst)

5 - To the Whidah-Bird (March) p. 267

(2) 6 - Sonnet - Coeur-Land (April) p. 289

(Vol. 21 )

(2) 1 - Sonnet (“A yellow halo swims”) (May) p. 10

(1) 2 - My Statue Love

(2) 3 - Sonnet. On a Cloudy Morning in May (Anna M. Hirst) (August) p. 186

4 - Sonnets to the Poets.V-Robeit Morris. “ p. 186

Southern Literary Messenger (Vol. 10)

1 - Night (Anna M. Hirst) (January) p. 17

(1) 2 - The Coming on of Night (January ) p. 33

(1) 3 - To E——— with a Withered Rose-Bud (January) p. 43

(1) 4 - Song of the Scald, Biorne (February) p. 72

(1) 5 - The Burial of Eros (February) p. 92 [page 146:]

1844, Continued

Southern Literary Messenger. Continued

(1) 6- Isabelle. A Ballad (April) p. 1

(1) 7 - Sonnet. Endurance. (Anna M. Hirst) (April) p. 246

8 - Endymion (July) p. 440

(1) 9 - Sonnets (by Anna M. Hirst)

I. The Desolated

II. - The Poet's Grave (August) p. 496

(1) 10 - The Funeral of Time (Sept.) p. 525

(1) 11 - Geraldine (Oct.) p. 619

(1) 12 - The Forsaken (by Anna M. Hirst) (Oct.) p. 630

Philadelphia .Saturday Courier (Aug. 10)

1 - Robert Morris of Philadelphia p. 1

1845

Broadway Journal (N.Y.)

1 - The Unseen River p. ?

Friendship's Offering (Annual for 1846) Boston

(4) 1 - Heart-Land p. 50

(4) 2 - Sonnet. Natal Stars p. 80

3 - The Disputed Will (a prose story) pp. 83-116, incl

Leaflets of Memory (Annual for1846) Philadelphia

(3) 1 - Sonnet. On a Summer Night p. 90

2 - A Requiem p. 126

Southern Literary Messenger (Vol. 11)

(2) 1 - Mare Mentis p. 157

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1846

Friendship's Offering (Annual for 1847)

1 - Sonnet. Love p. 54

2- Ellen Dale. A Ballad p. 295

Graham's Magazine

(3) 1 - The Wren (November) p. 231

Leaflets of Memory (Annual for 1847)

(3) 1 - Madeline p. 155

Southern Literary Messenger (Vol. 12)

1 - Reprint of Madeline, copied in a review of Leaflets of Memory, annual for 1847 (Oct.) p. 639)

1847

Graham’ s Magazine (Vol. 31 )

(3) 1 - Lucretia (Nov. ) p. 239

(3) 2 - The Last Tilt (Dec.) p. 267

1848

Graham's Magazine (Vol. 32)

(3) 1 - The Penance of Roland (January) pp. 25-30

(3) 2 - Lost Pleiad (February) p. 115

(3) 3- Lethe (March) p. 179

(3) 4- The Poet's Love (April) p. 200

(3) 5 - Coriolanus (June) p. 319

Ladies’ Garland (Philadelphia, Vol.13)

(3) 1 - No More (February) p. 46

Union Magazine (New ‘York, Vol. 3)

1 - Song (July) p. 14 [page 148:]

1849

Graham's Magazine (Vol. 34)

(3) 1 Florence pp. 163-8 (July) p. 35

(Vol. 35)

(3) 1 - To — — — (Printed in Penance of Roland as “Proem To My Wife”) (July) p. 35

2 - The Death of the Year (Dec.) p. 355

Philadelphia Saturday Courier

1 - Obituary of E.A. Poe Oct. 20, 1849

(not available in N.Y.C.)

1850

Godey's Lady’ s Book (Vol. 40)

1- Julian Cramer.”Our Musical Editor” (a prose sketch) p. 159-60

Graham's Magazine (Vol. 40)

1 - Ariadne p. 9

2 - The Pirate p. 112

3 - The Two Worlds p. 196

4 - Uriel p. 256

5 - The Valley of Shadow p. 307

6 - Narcissos p. 382

(Vol. 37)

1 - The Fall of the Fairies p. 21

1851

(Nothing)

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1852

Sartain's Union Magazine (Philadelphia, Vol. 10)

1 - Launcelot of the Lake (January) p. 6

2 - Death in Fever (February) p. 115

3 - Ballad of Ruth (March) p. 212

4 - Rhein-Wein. Flagon First. The Pilgrim of Love (April) p. 285

5 - Rhein-Wein. Flagon Second. The Legend of Luriei (May) p. 363

6 - The Ruined Tavern (Parody on Poe's “The Haunted Palace”) (May) p. 454

7 - The Valley of Repose (June) p. 443


[[Footnotes]]

(1) = Reprinted in Coming of the Mammoth under same title.

(2) = Reprinted in , but under a different title.

(3) = Reprinted in Penance of Roland.

(4) = Had previously appeared in Coming of the Mammoth


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Notes:

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[S:0 - LWHBHP, 1925] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Bookshelf - The Life and Writings of Henry Beck Hirst of Philadelphia (Watts)