Author:James Gates Percival

James Gates Percival
(1795–1856)

James Gates Percival

Works

Poetry

• Zamor (1795)
• Poems (1821)
• Prometheus Part II, with other poems (1822)
• Clio (1822)
• Poems (1823)
• Poem Delivered Before the Connecticut Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa Society (1826) [1]
• The Dream of a Day, and Other Poems (1843)
• The poetical works of James Gates Percival, with a Biographical Sketch (1859), in 2 vols.

Geology

• Report on the Geology of the State of Connecticut (1842)

Translations

• Physiological and chemical researches on the use of the prussic or hydro-cyanic acid in the treatment of diseases of the breast, and particularly in phthisis pulmonalis (1820) by François Magendie

As editor

• A geographical view of the world, embracing the manners, customs, and pursuits, of every nation (1826) by Sir Richard Phillips (writing as the Rev J. Goldsmith)
• A system of universal geography, or A description of all the parts of the world, on a new plan, according to the great natural divisions of the globe (1834) by Conrad Malte-Brun, in 3 vols.

Works about Percival

• "Percival, James Gates," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Percival, James Gates," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Percival, James Gates," in American Medical Biographies, (ed.) by Howard A. Kelly & Walter L. Burrage, Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Co. (1920)
• "Biographical Sketch" in The poetical works of James Gates Percival, with a Biographical Sketch (1859), in 2 vols.
• The life and letters of James Gates Percival (1866) by Julius H. Ward