Author:William Peterfield Trent

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William P. Trent (1862–1939)

sister projects: Wikipedia article. Professor of English Literature, Columbia University This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Articles written by this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "W. P. T."

Works

Contributions to NIE

• “Emerson, Ralph Waldo,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Jackson, Andrew,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Jefferson, Thomas,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Lincoln, Abraham,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Transcendentalism,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905. With Evander Bradley McGilvary.
• “Washington, George,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Whitman, Walt,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.

Contributions to Americana

• “Johnson, Samuel (man of letters)” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Keats, John” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Rasselas” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Robinson Crusoe” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Vanity of Human Wishes, The” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.

Contribution to EB1911

• “Lanier, Sidney” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.

About

• “Trent, William Peterfield,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Trent, William Peterfield” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1939, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.