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Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867)

Author of The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland

44+ Works 167 Members 2 Reviews

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Includes the names: N. P. WILLIS, N. Parker Willis, N.P. Esq. WILLIS, Nathaniel P. Willis

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Works by Nathaniel Parker Willis

The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland (2004) 38 copies
American Scenery (1971) 30 copies
The poems, sacred, passionate, and humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis (1868) 15 copies
Pencillings by the way (1852) 11 copies
Stories by American Authors, Volume 4 (1884) — Contributor — 8 copies, 1 review
Canadian Scenery (1842) 7 copies
Out-Doors at Idlewild, or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson (2021) 4 copies
Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean, on Board an American Frigate (2019) 4 copies
Fun-jottings; or, Laughs I have taken a pen to 3 copies
Sacred Poems (2018) 3 copies
Dashes at life with a free pencil 3 copies
Willis' Poetical Works: Poems of Early and After Years By N.P. Willis (1848) 2 copies
Poems of Nathaniel Parker Willis with A Memoir of the Author (2016) 2 copies
Trenton Falls, Picturesque and Descriptive (Classic Reprint) (2015) 2 copies
Famous persons and places (1972) 2 copies
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Associated Works

McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader (1974) — Contributor, some editions — 540 copies, 4 reviews
The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre (1997) — Contributor — 522 copies, 6 reviews
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (2004) — Contributor — 328 copies, 3 reviews
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (1998) — Contributor — 301 copies, 4 reviews
World's Great Adventure Stories (1929) — Contributor — 83 copies
The Blithedale Romance [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (2010) — Contributor — 62 copies, 2 reviews
Modern English Readings (1942) — Contributor — 60 copies
The Tavern Lamps Are Burning: Literary Journeys through Six Regions and Four Centuries of New York State (1964) — Contributor — 25 copies
Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II (2004) — Contributor — 21 copies
American Poems 1776-1922 (2013) — Contributor — 8 copies
The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories Vol. XIV: American (2008) — Contributor — 7 copies
Representative American Short Stories — Contributor — 5 copies, 1 review
Half-Hours with Great Novelists (1884) — Contributor — 4 copies
American Plays (1935) — Contributor — 3 copies, 1 review
Representative plays by American dramatists (1925) — Contributor — 2 copies

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tearaway3,557 reviews
Fugitive Poetry by Nathaniel Parker Willis
Years ago there was a band local to me, called Fugitive Poetry. I have their vinyl LP The Colours of the Poet. I played two of the songs I like the most on my show.

I figured their name was inspired by this book, and I like to read works that have inspired band, album, and song names.

The poetry is long is lines and light on rhymes and rhythm. There are pastoral poems, odes to God and beautiful mortals. If anything, there is an aching, yearning fairly consistent throughout about better lives show more and a more beautiful world as if glimpsed from a prison, or hoped for in an afterlife. show less
Mar 28, 2025
wirkman359 reviews
Stories By American Authors, Volume 4 by Constance Fenimore Woolson
The De Forest tale is terrific.
Sep 18, 2014

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