Male : Poet, Novelist & Traveller. Married Mary Agnew in 1850 (died 1850) and Marie Hanson 1857

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Kennett Square, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Date of Birth : 1825 Date of Death : 1878 Age : 53

Other Work : Journalist

Education : Unionville Academy, Pennsylvania

1844-1850
Ximena, or The Battle of Sierra Morena and Other Poems (1844)
Views Afoot, or Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff (1846)
Rhymes of Travel, Ballads and Poems (1849)
El Dorado, or Adventures in the Path of Empire, comprising a Voyage to California via
Panama ... Experiences of Mexican Travel (1850 Putnam NY) - 2 vols
Offered in 1998 for £420

1851-1860
A Book of Romances, Lyrics and Songs (1852)
(Ed) Handbook of Literature and Fine Arts (1852)
A Journey to Central Africa : Life & Landscapes from Egypt to the Negro Kingdoms
of the White Nile (1854 Putnam NY)
The Land of the Saracen (1854)
A Visit to India, China and Japan in the Year 1853 (1855 Putnam)
Poems of the Orient (1855 Ticknor & Fields)
Poems of Home and Travel (1855 Ticknor & Fields)
(Ed) Cyclopaedia of Modern Travel : A Record of Adventure (1856)
(1861 Moore, Wilstach, Keys, NY. Rev Ed) - 2 vols
The Lands of the Saracen, or Pictures of Palestine (1856 Putnam NY)
Northern Travel (1857)
Travels in Greece & Russia with an Excursion to Crete (1859 Putnam)
At Home and Abroad (1859-62) - 2 vols

1861-1870
The Poet's Journal (1862)
Hannah Thurston (1863) - novel
John Godrey's Fortune (1864) - novel
The Story of Kennett (1866 Putnam, Hurd & Houghton NY) - novel
The Picture of St John (1866 Ticknor & Fields)
Colorado : A Summer Trip (1867 Putnam)
(Ed) Frithiof's Saga by Esaias Tegher (1867)
The Golden Wedding : A Masque (1868)
By-Ways of Europe (1869)
The Ballad of Abraham Lincoln (1870)
Joseph and His Friend (1870)
(Trans) Goethe's Faust (1870-1) - 2 vols

1871-1875
(Ed) Travels in Arabia (1871) (1892 Scribner. Rev Ed)
(Ed) Travels in South Africa (1872 NY)
The Masque of the Gods (1872 Osgood, Boston) - Play
Beauty and the Beast and Tales of Home (1872)
(Ed) Japan in Our Day (1872)
Lars : A Pastoral of Norway (1873)
(Ed) The Lake Regions of Central Africa (1873)
The Prophet (1874) - play
A School History of Germany (1874)
Egypt and Iceland in the Year 1874 (1874)
(Ed) Central Asia : Travels in Cashmere, Little Thibet & Central Asia (1874 Scribner NY)
Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics (1875)

1876 Onwards
The Echo Club and Other Literary Diversions (1876)
Boys of Other Countries : Stories for American Boys (1876)
The National Ode (1877)
(Ed) Picturesque Europe (1877)
(Ed) Japan in Our Day (1877 Scribner NY)
Prince Deukalion (1878) - play
Studies in German Literature (1879)
Critical Essays and Literary Notes (1880) - Edited by Marie Hansen-Taylor
The Dramatic Works (1880)
The Poetical Works (1880)
Life and Letters (1884) - 2 vols. Edited by Marie Hansen-Taylor & H E Scudder
(Trans) A Sheaf of Poems (1911)
Unpublished Letters in the Huntingdon Library (1937) - Edited by John R Schultz
Correspondence of Bayard Taylor and Paul hamilton Hayne (1945) - Edited by Charles Duffy

READING
Albert H Smyth : Bayard Taylor (1896)
Richmond Croom Beatty : Bayard Taylor - Laureate of the Gilded Age (1936)
Richard Cary : The Genteel Circle - Bayard Taylor and His New York Friends (1952)
John T Krumpelmann : Bayard Taylor and German Letters (19059)
Paul C Wermuth : Bayard Taylor (1973)