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Born in March 23, 1852 / Died in March 7, 1940 / United States / English

Bibliography

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  • The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems, Doubleday & McClure (New York, NY), 1899.
  • Lincoln and Other Poems, McClure, Phillips (New York, NY), 1901.
  • (Editor and author of introduction) Edgar Allan Poe, The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ten volumes, Funk & Wagnalls (New York, NY), 1904.
  • (With Mary E. Burt) The Burt-Markham Primer: The Nature Method, Ginn (Boston), 1907.
  • 1909-27(Editor) John R. Musick, The Real America in Romance, fourteen volumes, W. H. Wise (New York City and Chicago).
  • (Editor and author of introduction) The Younger Choir, Moods (New York, NY), 1910.
  • (With Benjamin B. Lindsey and George Creel) Children in Bondage (nonfiction), Hearst's (New York, NY), 1914.
  • California the Wonderful: Her Romantic History, Her Picturesque People, Her Wild Shores, Her Desert Mystery, Her Valley Loveliness, Her Mountain Glory (nonfiction), Doubleday, Page (Garden City, NY), 1915.
  • Gates of Paradise and Other Poems, Doubleday, Page (Garden City, NY), 1920.
  • Campbell Meeker, Harold Vinal (New York, NY), 1925.
  • (Editor) The Book of Poetry, three volumes, W. H. Wise (New York City), 1926, expanded editions published as The Book of American Poetry, The Book of Classic English Poetry: 600-1830, and The Book of Modern English Poetry: 1830-1934, W. H. Wise, 1934.
  • (Editor) Songs and Stories, Powell (Los Angeles), 1931.
  • New Poems: Eighty Songs at Eighty, Doubleday, Doran (Garden City, NY), 1932.
  • (Editor) Poetry of Youth: Selected from the Book of Poetry, W. H. Wise (New York, NY), 1935.
  • The Star of Araby, John Willig Press (Stapleton, NY), 1937.
  • Poems of Edwin Markham, selected and arranged by Charles L. Wallis, Harper (New York, NY), 1950.
  • The Ballad of the Gallows Bird, Antioch Press (Yellow Springs, OH), 1967.
  • (As told by Alda Ellis) An Unexpected Christmas Guest, Harvest House (Eugene, OR), 2001.

Contributor of essays to periodicals, including "The Social Conscience" to San Francisco Chronicle, May 23, 1898; "How and Why I Wrote 'The Man with the Hoe'" to Saturday Evening Post, December 16, 1899; "Christ and the Social State" to Twentieth Century, January, 1910; "Swedenborg: The Eye of the Age" to New Church Review, April, 1925; "How I Wrote 'Lincoln, the Man of the People'" to Dearborn Independent, February 6, 1926; and "Poetry: Defining the Indefinable" to Poetry Review, September/October, 1929. The Markham Archives are located in the Horrmann Library, Wagner College.