Frederick Pottle

1897—1987

Bibliography

BOOKS

Shelley and Browning: A Myth and Some Facts (Chicago: Pembroke Press, 1923; reprinted with new preface, Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1965).
A New Portrait of James Boswell, by Pottle and Chauncey Brewster Tinker (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1927).
The Literary Career of James Boswell, Esq.: Being the Bibliographical Materials for a Life of Boswell (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1929).
Stretchers: The Story of a Hospital Unit on the Western Front (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1929; London: Oxford University Press, 1929).
The Private Papers of James Boswell From Malahide Castle in the Collection of Lt.-Col. Ralph Heyward Isham: A Catalogue, by Pottle and Marion S. Pottle (London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1931).
Boswell and the Girl from Botany Bay (New York: Viking, 1937; London: Heinemann, 1938).
Index to the Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle in the Collection of Lt.-Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham, by Pottle, Joseph Foladare, John P. Kirby, and others (London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1937).
The Idiom of Poetry (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1941; revised and enlarged, 1946).
James Boswell: The Earlier Years, 1740-1769 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966; London: Heinemann, 1966).
Pride and Negligence: The History of the Boswell Papers (New York & London: McGraw-Hill, 1982).

OTHER

Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle in the Collection of Lt.-Col. Ralph Heyward Isham, volumes 7-18, edited by Pottle (Mount Vernon, N.Y.: Privately printed, 1930-1934):
Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D., 1773, Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, edited by Pottle and Charles H. Bennett (New York: Viking Press, 1936; London: Heinemann, 1936); revised by Pottle as Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 1773, The Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961; London: Heinemann, 1963).
"The Power of Memory in Boswell and Scott," in Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honor of His Seventieth Birthday (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1945), pp. 168-189.
"James Boswell, Journalist," in The Age of Johnson: Essays Presented to Chauncey Brewster Tinker, edited by Frederick W. Hilles (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949), pp. 15-25.
Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763: Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, edited by Pottle, The Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950; London: Heinemann, 1950); revised as Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763, Together with Journal of My Jaunt. Harvest 1762 (London: Heinemann, 1951).
Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764: Including His Correspondence with Belle de Zuylen (Zélide), edited by Pottle, The Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1952; London: Heinemann, 1952).
James Boswell, Andrew Erskine, and George Dempster, Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch (1763)(, introduction by Pottle (Los Angeles: Augustan Reprint Society, 1952).
Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland, 1764, edited by Pottle, The Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953; London: Heinemann, 1953).
Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy, Corsica, and France, 1765-1766, edited by Pottle and Frank Brady, The Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955; London: Heinemann, 1955).
Boswell in Search of a Wife, 1766-1769, edited by Pottle and Brady, The Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956; London: Heinemann, 1957).
Boswell for the Defence, 1769-1774, edited by Pottle and William K. Wimsatt, The Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959; London: Heinemann, 1960).
"The Dark Hints of Sir John Hawkins and Boswell," in New Light on Dr. Johnson: Essays on the Occasion of his 250th Birthday, edited by Hilles (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959), pp. 153-162.
"Boswell as Icarus," in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature: Essays in Honor of Alan Dugald McKillop, edited by Carroll Camden (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963), pp. 389-406.
Boswell: The Ominous Years, 1774-1776, edited by Pottle and Charles Ryskamp, The Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963; London: Heinemann, 1963).
"Boswell Revalued," in Literary Views: Critical and Historical Essays, edited by Camden (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963), pp. 79-91.
"Boswell's University Education," in Johnson, Boswell, and Their Circle: Essays Presented to Lawrence Fitzroy Powell in Honor of His Eighty-Fourth Birthday(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965), pp. 230-253.
Boswell in Extremes, 1776-1778, edited by Pottle and Charles McC. Weis, The Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970; London: Heinemann, 1971).
"The Eye and the Object in the Poetry of Wordsworth," in Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in Criticism, edited by Harold Bloom (New York: Norton, 1970), pp. 273-287.
"The Life of Johnson: Art and Authenticity," in Twentieth Century Interpretations of Boswell's Life of Johnson, edited by James L. Clifford (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1970), pp. 66-73.
"Synchrony and Diachrony: A Plea for the Use in Literary Studies of Saussure's Concepts and Terminology," in Literary Theory and Structure: Essays in Honor of William K. Wimsatt, edited by Frank Brady, John Palmer, and Martin Price (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1973), pp. 3-21.
"Wordsworth in the Present Day," in Romanticism: Vistas, Instances, Continuities, edited by David Thorburn and Geoffrey Hartman (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1973), pp. 115-133.
"The Case of Shelley," in English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism, second edition, edited by M. H. Abrams (London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1975), pp. 366-383.
Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck, 1778-1782, edited by Pottle and Joseph W. Reed, The Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977).
Boswell: The Applause of the Jury, 1782-1785, edited by Pottle and Irma S. Lustig, The Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981; London: Heinemann, 1982).
"The Adequacy as Biography of Boswell's Life of Johnson," in Boswell's Life of Johnson: New Questions, New Answers, edited by John A. Vance (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985), pp. 147-160.
Boswell: The English Experiment, 1785-1789, edited by Pottle and Lustig, The Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986; London: Heinemann, 1986).

SELECTED PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS

"Three New Legal Ballads by James Boswell," Juridical Review, 37 (September 1925): 201-211.
"The Part Played by Horace Walpole and James Boswell in the Quarrel between Rousseau and Hume," Philological Quarterly, 4 (October 1925): 351-363.
"Boswell's Corsica," Yale University Library Gazette, 1 (October 1926): 21-22.
"Shelley and Wordsworth," Times Literary Supplement, 20 June 1936, p. 523.
"Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi," Modern Philology, 39 (May 1942): 421-430.
"The Life of Boswell," Yale Review, 35 (March 1946): 445-460.
"Wordsworth and Freud, or the Theology of the Unconscious," Bulletin of the General Theological Seminary, 34 (June 1948): 18-27.
"Catharsis," Yale Review, 40 (June 1951): 621-641.
"Boswell in Love: His Private Papers and Correspondence with Zélide," Atlantic, 189 (April 1952): 34-43.
"Notes on the Importance of Private Legal Documents for the Writing of Biography and Literary History," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 106 (August 1962): 327-334.

Frederick A. Pottle's papers related to his work on Boswell are in the Boswell Office, Sterling Library, Yale University.

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