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.