Author:William Davenport Adams

William Davenport Adams
(1851–1904)

William Davenport Adams

Works

• A Dictionary of English Literature; Being a Comprehensive Guide to English Authors and their Works (1877)
• By-Ways in Book-Land; Short Essays on Literary Subjects (1888)
• Rambles in Book-Land; Short Essays On Literary Subjects (1889)
• With Poet and Player; Essays on Literature and the Stage (1891)
• Artistic London (1892)
• A Dictionary of the Drama. A guide to the plays, playwrights, players, and playhouses of the United Kingdom and America, from the earliest times to the present. Volume 1. A-G (1904)

As editor

• The revolutionary epick, and other poems (1904), by Benjamin Disraeli

As compiler

• Lyrics of Love, from Shakespeare to Tennyson (1874)
• Famous books; sketches in the highways and byeways of English literature (1875)
• The golden book of English song; containing choice selections from the principal poets of the present century (1875)
• The Comic Poets of the Nineteenth Century. Poems ... by living writers (1875)
• English epigrams, selected and arranged with introduction, notes, and notices of the epigrammatists (1878)
• Latter-Day Lyrics, being poems of sentiment and reflection by living writers (1878)
• Songs of Society, from Anne to Victoria. (1880)
• The witty and humorous side of the English poets; with a variety of specimens arranged in periods (1880)
• Quips and Quiddities (1881)
• The Treasury of Modern Anecdote, being a selection from the witty and humorous sayings of the last hundred years (1881)
• Songs from the novelists; from Elizabeth to Victoria (1885)
• A Book of Burlesque, Sketches of English Stage Travestie and Parody (1891)

Works about Adams

• "Adams, William Davenport," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1912) in 3 vols.

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.