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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

William Peterfield Trent (1862–1939)

Trent, William Peterfield. An American writer, after 1900 Professor of English Literature at Columbia University; born at Richmond, VA, Nov. 10, 1862; died in 1939. He published: ‘Life of William Gilmore Simms’; ‘English Culture in Virginia’; ‘Southern Statesmen of the Old Régime’ (1897); ‘History of American Literature’ (1903); ‘Greatness in Literature’ (1905); ‘Longfellow and Other Essays’ (1910). He was also an editor of ‘The Cambridge History of American Literature.’