A first attempt at listing the
numerous books and articles by Archer Taylor was made by C.
Grant Loomis, "Bibliography of the Writings of Archer
Taylor," in Humaniora. Essays in Literature, Folklore,
Bibliography. Honoring Archer Taylor on His Seventieth
Birthday, ed. by Wayland Hand and Gustave Arlt (Locust
Valley/New York: J.J. Augustin, 1960), pp. 356-374. Ten
years later, in a second Festschrift for Taylor,
Wayland Hand assembled a specific list on "Writings of
Archer Taylor on Proverbs and Proverbial Lore," Proverbium, 15 (1970).420-424. Naturally the present
bibliography of Archer Taylor's voluminous proverb studies
is greatly indebted to these two previous compilations.
However, several errors have now been corrected, and in
addition, a considerable number of hitherto not recorded
studies is included in the present list. It was published
for the first time in Wolfgang Mieder (ed.), Selected
Writings on Proverbs by Archer Taylor (Helsinki:
Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1975), pp. 195-203. For detailed
annotations of most of Taylor's proverb publications see
Wolfgang Mieder, International Proverb Scholarship: An
Annotated Bibliography (New York: Garland Publishing,
1982), pp. 449-465 (nos. 1854-1908).
A number of Taylor's articles have
been reprinted in his own essay volume Comparative
Studies in Folklore. Asia-Europe-America (Taipei: The
Orient Cultural Service, 1972) and in the collection of
essays edited by W. Mieder mentioned above. References to
these two books are indicated as "Taylor" and "Mieder"
respectively.
1920
" 'O du armer Judas'," Journal of
English and Germanic Philology, 19 (1920),
318-339.
1921
" 'In the Evening Praise the Day'," Modern Language Notes, 36 (1921), 115-118.
1924
"Proverbia Britannica," Washington
University Studies (Humanistic Series), l l (1924),
409-423.
1926
"Sunt tria damna domus," Hessische
Blätter für Volkskunde, 24 (1926), 130-146.
Mieder, pp. 133-151.
1930
"The Proverbial Formula 'Man sol.'," Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, new series, 2
(1930),152-156. Mieder, pp. 101-105.
1931
The Proverb (Cambridge/Massachusetts: Harvard University Press,
1931). Rpt. as The Proverb and An Index to "The Proverb" (Hatboro/Pennsylvania: Folklore Associates,1962; and
Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1962).
1932
"An Introductory Bibliography for the
Study of Proverbs," Modern Philology, 30 (1932),
195-210. Mieder, pp. 180-194.
1934
An Index to "The Proverb" (Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1934). Rpt. as The Proverb and An Index to "The Proverb" (Hatboro/Pennsylvania: Folklore Associates, 1962; and
Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1962).
" 'Niemals' in einem historischen
Schweizer Volkslied," in Volkskundliche Gaben. John Meier
zum siebzigsten Geburtstag dargebracht, ed. by Erich
Seemann and Harry Schewe (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1934),
pp. 280-281.
" 'On Tib's Eve, neither before nor
after Christmas'," in Studia germanica tillägnade
Ernst Albin Kock, ed. by Erik Rooth (Lund: C.W.K.
Gleerup, 1934), pp. 385-386.
"Problems in the Study of Proverbs," Journal of American Folklore, 47 (1934), 1-21.
Taylor, pp. 21-41; Mieder, pp. 15-39.
Review:
Walter Gottschalk, Die
sprichwörtlichen Redensarten der französischen
Sprache, 2 vols. (Heidelberg 1930), in Modern
Philology, 31 (1933-34), 334-335.
1935
Reviews:
Bartlett Jere Whiting, Chaucer's
Use of Proverbs (Cambridge/Mass. 1934), in Modern
Philology, 32 (1934-35), 431-432.
Hans L. Stoltenberg, Deutsche
Weisheitssprache: ihr Weg und ihr Ziel (Lahr 1933), in Germanic Review, 10 (1935), 52.
1936
Reviews:
Ansten Anstensen, The Proverb in
Ibsen. Proverbial Sayings and Citations as Elements in his
Style (New York 1936), in Germanic Review, 11
(1936), 293-294.
Walter Gottschalk, Die bildhaften
Sprichwörter der Romanen, vol. I (Heidelberg 1935),
in Modern Philology, 34 (1936-37), 107.
William George Smith, The Oxford
Dictionary of English Proverbs (Oxford 1935), in Modern Philology, 34 (1936-37), 202-204.
1937
Review:
Walter Gottschalk, Die bildhaften
Sprichwörter der Romanen, vol II (Heidelberg 1936),
in Journal of American Folklore, 50 (1937),
194.
1938
Reviews:
Grace Frank and Dorothy Miner, eds., Proverbes en rimes: text and illustrations of the
fifteenth century from a French manuscript in the Walters
Art Gallery, Baltimore (Baltimore 1937), in Modern
Philology, 36 (1938-39), 73-74.
Clarence D. Brenner. Le
Developpement du proverbe dramatique en France et sa vogue
au XVIIIe siècle avec un proverbe inédit de
Carmontelle (Berkeley 1937), in Modern Philology, 36 (193839), 74.
Bartlett Jere Whiting, Proverbs in
the Earlier English Drama with Illustrations from
Contemporary French Plays (Cambridge/Mass. 1938), in Modern Philology, 36 (1938-39), 102-103.
1939
"The Study of Proverbs," Modern
Language Forum, 24 (1939), 5783. (with Bartlett J.
Whiting, Francis W. Bradley, Richard Jente, Morris P.
Tilley). Mieder, pp. 40-67.
1941
"A Metaphor of the Human Body, in
Literature and Tradition," in Corona. Studies in
Celebration of the Eightieth Birthday of Samuel Singer, ed. by Arno Schirokauer and Wolfgang Paulsen
(Durham/North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1941), pp.
37.
"The Proverb 'The Black Ox has Trod on
his Foot' in Renaissance Literature," Philological
Quarterly, 20 (1941), 266-278. Mieder, pp.
152-164.
" 'Zwischen Pfingsten und
Strassburg'," in Studies in Honor of John Albrecht Walz (Lancaster/Pennsylvania: Lancaster Press, 1941), pp.
21-30.
1943
"Attila and Modern Riddles," Journal of American Folklore, 56 (1943),
136-137.
"Poe, Dr. Lardner, and 'Three Sundays
in a Week'," American Notes and Queries, 3 (1943-44),
153-155.
Review:
Robert Petsch, Spruchdichtung des
Volkes. Vor- und Frühformen der Volksdichtung (Halle 1938), in Germanic Review, 18 (1943),
311-312.
1946
Review:
Samuel Singer, Sprichwörter
des Mittelalters, 2 vols. (Bern 1946), in Modern Language Notes, 61 (1946), 576.
1948
Reviews:
Charles Earle Funk, A Hog on Ice
and other Curious Expressions (New York 1948), in American Speech, 23 (1948), 135-136.
C. Kruyskamp, Apologische
Spreekwoorden (The Hague 1947), in Western
Folklore, 7 (1948), 316-317.
1949
"Locutions for 'Never'," Romance
Philology, 2 (1949), 103-134.
"Wellerisms in Colombia," Western
Folklore, 8 (1949), 266-267.
1950
"Die Sonne tanzt am Ostermorgen," Hessische Blätte für Volkskunde, 41 (1950),
195.
" 'Or est venuz qui aunera' and the
English Proverbial Phrase 'To Take his Measure'," Modern
Language Notes, 65 (1950), 344-345.
"Proverb," in Standard Dictionary
of Folklore, Mythology and Legend, vo1. II (New York:
Funk & Wagnalls, 1950), pp. 902905.
"Proverbial Phrase," in Standard
Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend, vo1. II
(New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1950), p. 906.
"Quotations and Winged Words
(Geflügelte Worte)," in Standard Dictionary of
Folklore, Mythology and Legend, vol. II (New York: Funk
& Wagnalls, 1950), p. 916.
"Wellerisms," in Standard
Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend, vol. II
(New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1950), pp.
1169-1170.
Reviews:
Burton E. Stevenson, The Home Book
of Proverbs, Maxims, and Familiar Phrases (New York
1948), in Journal of American Folklore, 63 (1950),
pp. 484-485.
William George Smith and Janet
Heseltine, The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs, 2nd ed. (Oxford 1948), in Journal of American
Folklore, 63 (1950), 113-114.
1951
"California Proverbs and Sententious
Sayings," Western Folklore, 10 (1951), 248-249. (with
C. Grant Loomis)
Morris Palmer Tilley, A Dictionary
of Proverbs in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries (Ann Arbor/Michigan 1950), in Journal of
American Folklore, 64 (1951), 428-429.
Richard Winstedt, ed., Malay
Proverbs (London 1950), in Journal of American
Folklore, 64 (1951), 235-236.
1952
"A Bibliographical Note on
Wellerisms," Journal of American Folklore, 65 (1952),
420-421.
"Dutch in Proverbial and Conventional
Use," Western Folklore, 11 (1952), 219.
" 'God's Acre' once more," Modern
Language Notes, 67 (1952), 341.
"Investigations of English Proverbs,
Proverbial and Conventional Phrases, Oaths and
Clichés," Journal of American Folklore, 65
(1952), 255-265.
"Pink Elephants," Journal of
American Folklore, 65 (1952),259.
"To get (be) Hep," Journal of
American Folklore, 65 (1952), 260.
1954
"Pink Elephants again," Journal of
American Folklore, 67 (1954), 238.
Proverbial Comparisons and Similes
from California (Berkeley/California:
University of California Press, 1954).
1955
"A Curious List of Americanisms," American Speech, 30 (1955), 151-152.
" 'An Old Friend is the Best Friend'," Romance Philology, 9 (1955), 201-205.
Pappity Stampoy, A Collection of
Scotch Proverbs (1663), ed. by Archer Taylor (Los
Angeles/California: The Augustan Reprint Society,
1955).
Review:
David Kin, Dictionary of American
Proverbs (New York 1955), in Western Folklore, 14
(1955), 292.
1956
"Proverbial Materials in Two Novels by
Harry Harrison Kroll," Bulletin of the Tennessee Folklore
Society, 22 (1956), 39-52.
"Proverbial Materials in Two More
Novels by Harry Harrison Kroll," Bulletin of the
Tennessee Folklore Society, 22 (1956), 73-84.
"Raw Head and Bloody Bones," Journal of American Folklore, 69 (1956),114,
175.
"Some Japanese Proverbial
Comparisons," Western Folklore, 15 (1956), 59-60.
Taylor, p. 283.
The Shanghai Gesture (Helsinki:
Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1956). Taylor, pp.
293-366.
Reviews:
Edmund P. Kremer, German Proverbs
and Proverbial Phrases with their English Counterparts (Stanford/California 1955), in Western Folklore, 15 (1956), 142-143.
Giuseppe Vatova, Saggio sui
proverbi istriani (Turin 1954), in Journal of
American Folklore, 69 (1956), 403.
1957
" 'Audi, Vide, Tace,'and theThree
Monkeys," Fabula, I (1957), 26-31. Taylor, pp.
287-292; Mieder, pp. 165-171.
" 'No House is Big Enough for Two
Women'," Western Folklore, 16 (1957), 121-124.
Taylor, pp. 279-282.
"No Soap," Western Folklore, 16
(1957), 198-200.
"Proverbial Comparisons in the Plays
of Beaumont and Fletcher," Journal of American Folklore, 70 (1957), 25-36.
"Proverbial Materials in Edward
Eggleston, 'The Hoosier Schoolmaster'," in Studies in
Folklore, in Honor of distinguished Service, Professor Stith
Thompson, ed. by Edson Richmond (Bloomington/Indiana:
Indiana University Press, 1957), pp.
262-270.
"Proverbial Materials in Tobias
Smollett, 'The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves'," Southern Folklore Quarterly, 21 (1957),
85-92.
"Proverbial Phrases in the Plays of
Beaumont and Fletcher," Bulletin of the Tennessee
Folklore Society, 23 (1957), 39-59.
"Proverbs in the Plays of William
Wycherley," Southern Folklore Quarterly, 21 (1957),
213-217.
Reviews:
Israel Cohen, Parallel Proverbs in
English, German and Hebrew (Tel Aviv 1954), in Journal of American Folklore, 70 (1957),
8081.
V.H. Collins, A Book of English
Idioms with Explanations (London 1956), in Journal of
American Folklore, 70 (1957), 81.
1958
A Dictonary of American Proverbs
and Proverbial Phrases, 18201880 (Cambridge/Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 1958). (with Bartlett Jere
Whiting)
" 'All is not Gold that Glitters' and
'Rolandslied', 1956," Romance Philology, 11 (1958),
370-371.
"Americanisms Current in 1845," Western Folklore, 17 (1958), 280-281.
"Feed a Cold and Starve a Fever," Journal of American Folklore, 71 (1958),
190.
"More Proverbial Comparisons from
California," Western Folklore, 17 (1958),
12-20.
"No House is Big Enough for Two
Women," Western Folklore, 17 (1958), 123.
"Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases in
the Plays of Thomas Middleton," Southern Folklore
Quarterly, 23 (1958), 79-89.
"Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases in
the Writings of Mary N. Murfree (Charles Egnert Craddock)," Bulletin of the Tennessee Folklore Society, 24
(1958), 11-50.
"Snakes in Virginia," Western
Folklore, 17 (1958), 277.
" 'Sop- gravy'," Western Folklore, 17 (1958), 126-127.
"The Customer is Always Right," Western Folklore, 17 (1958), 54-55.
" 'Tom, Dick, and Harry',"Names, 6 (1958), 51-54.
Review:
August F. Schmidt, Danmarks
Byremser (Copenhagen 1957), in Southern Folklore
Quarterly, 22 (1958), 210-211.
1959
" 'All is not Gold that Glitters' and
Hypothetical Reconstructions," Syn og Segn (1959),
129-132.
"Americanisms in 'The Log of a
Cowboy'," Western Folklore, 18 (1959),
39-41.
"Some Americanisms in James Hall,
'Legends of the West' (Philadelphia 1833)," Western
Folklore, 18 (1959), 331.
"The Use of Proper Names in Wellerisms
and Folk Tales," Western Folklore, 18 (1959),
287-293. Mieder, pp. 106-114.
1960
"I am Thine and Thou art Mine," in Hommages à Georges Dumézil (Bruxelles:
Revue d'études latines, 1960), pp. 201208. Taylor,
pp. 267-274.
"Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases in
the Plays of John Marston," Southern Folklore Quarterly, 24 (1960),193-216.
"Proverbs in the Plays of Beaumont and
Fletcher," Southern Folklore Quarterly, 24 (1960),
77-100.
"Wellerisms and Riddles," Western
Folklore, 19 (1960),55-56.
1961
" 'No Soap' once more," Western
Folklore, 20 (1961), 114.
"Proverbi marinari inglesi," in Ethnografia e Folklore del Mare (Rome 1961), pp.
705-711.
"Some Proverbial Expressions from
Bayard Taylor's 'Story of Kennett'," Keystone Folklore
Quarterly, 6 (1961), 23-24.
1962
"A Man Must Live," Western
Folklore, 21 (1962), 112.
"Proverbial Comparisons and Similes in
'On Troublesome Creek'," Kentucky Folklore Record, 8
(1962), 87-96.
"Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases in
Roger L'Estrange, 'The Fables of Aesop'," Southern
Folklore Quarterly, 26 (1962), 232-245.
"The Months Without an R in Their
Names," Western Folklore, 21 (1962),109.
"The Proverb and An Index to "The
Proverb " (Hatboro/Pennsylvania: Folklore Associates,
1962; and Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and
Bagger,1962).
"The Wisdom of Many and the Wit of
One," Swarthmore College Bulletin, 59 (1962), 4-7.
Mieder, pp. 68-73. Also reprinted in W. Mieder and Alan
Dundes (eds.), The Wisdom of Many: Essays on the Proverb (New York: Garland Publishing, 1981), pp.
3-9.
1963
"A False Alarm," Western Folklore, 22 (1963), 271.
" 'He That Will Not When He May, When
He Will Shall Have Nay'," in Studies in Old English
Literature in Honor of Arthur G. Brodeur, ed. by Stanley
B. Greenfield (Eugene/Oregon: University of Oregon Book,
1963), pp. 155-161.
"Peacock on the Wall," American
Notes and Queries, 1 (1963), 136.
Review:
"An Armful of New Books: ...
'Proverbs,' ...," in Revista de Etnografia, 1 (1963),
219-222.
1964
"John Braine's Proverbs," Western
Folklore, 23 (1964), 42-43.
"Notes on North Carolina Proverbs in
NCF, 1, 26-27," North Carolina Folklore, 12 (1964),
13-14.
"The History of a Proverbial Pattern,"
in Classical, Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies in Honor
of Berthold Louis Ullman, ed. by Charles Henderson, vol.
II (Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1964), pp.
483-489. Taylor, pp. 241-247; Mieder, pp.
115-121.
1965
"A few Additional nineteenth-century
American Proverbs," North Carolina Folklore, 13
(1965), 37-38.
"The Study of Proverbs," Proverbium, 1 (1965), 1-10. Mieder, pp.
74-83.
" 'Hell,' Said the Duchess," Proverbium, 2 (1965), 32.
"Proverbial Phrases not Proverbs, in
Breughel's Painting," Proverbium, 3 (1965),
57.
"The Road to 'An Englishman's House'," Romance Philology, 19 (1965), 279-285.
1966
" 'Neither Fish nor Flesh' and its
Variations," Journal of the Folklore Institute, 3
(1966),3-9. Mieder, pp. 122-128.
1967
"Ragtag and Bobtail," American
Notes and Queries, 6 (1967) 24-25.
"Stolen Fruit is Always the Sweetest," Proverbium, 7 (1967), 145149.
"The Collection and Study of
Proverbs." Proverbium, 8 (1967), 161176. Mieder, pp.
84-100.
Reviews:
Frances M. Barbour, ed., Proverbs
and Proverbial Phrases of Illinois (Carbondale/lllinois
1965), in Proverbium, 9 (1967) 222-223.
Ya. I.Kalontarov, Tadzhikskie
poslovitsy i pogovorkii v analogii s russkimi (Dushanbe
1965), in Proverbium, 9 (1967), 223.
Giuseppe Vatova, Raccolta sui
proverbi istriani, 2nd ed. (Venezia Lido 1963), in Proverbium, 9 (1967), 223-224.
1968
"And Marie Antoinette Said ...," Revista de Etnografia, 11 (1968), 245-260. Taylor,
pp. 249-265.
"Bad Money Drives out Good," American Notes and Queries, 7 (1968), 124.
"It is Good Fishing in Troubled
(Muddy) Waters," Proverbium, 11 (1968), 268-275.
Mieder, pp. 172-179.
"Method in the History and
Interpretation of a Proverb: 'A Place for Everything and
Everything in Its Place'," Proverbium, 10 (1968), 235-238. Mieder, pp. 129-132.
" 'This too Will Pass' (Jason 910 Q),"
in Volksüberlieferung. Festschrift für Kurt
Ranke zur Vollendung des 60. Lebensjahres, ed. by Fritz
Harkort, Karel C. Peeters and Robert Wildhaber
(Göttingen: O. Schwartz, 1968), pp. 345-350.
"To Be on His Own Log," American
Notes and Queries, 7 (1968),55
"Truth Hangs upon the Log," American Notes and Queries, 7 (1968), 55.
" 'When Wine is In, Wit is Out'," in Nordica et Anglica. Studies in Honor of Stefán
Einarsson, ed. by Allan H. Orrick (The Hague: Mouton,
1968), pp. 53-56. Taylor, pp. 275-278.
1969
"How Nearly Complete Are the
Collections of Proverbs?" Proverbium, 14 (1969),
369-371.
"To Face the Music," American Notes
and Queries, 7 (1969), 120.
"To Go it Baldheaded," American
Notes and Queries, 7 (1969), 88.
"To Hoe One's Row in Africa," American Notes and Queries, 8 (1969), 7-8.
1970
"As Light as a Feather," Folklore
Research Center Studies, 1 (1970),
95-96.
"Prostitution the Oldest Profession," A merican Notes and Queries, 8 (1970),
88-89.
1971
"Innocent as a Bird," American
Notes and Queries, 10 (1971), 40.
" 'Leave no Stone Unturned' or an
Afternoon with a Historical Dictionary of Proverbs," Proverbium, 16 (1971),553-556.
"Sore as a Pup," American Notes and
Queries, 9 (1971), 41.
"To Cut the Mustard," American
Notes and Queries, 9 (1971), 153.
Review:
F.P. Wilson, ed., The Oxford
Dictionary of English Proverbs (compiled by William
George Smith). (Oxford 1970), in Proverbium, 16
(1971), 607.
1972
Comparative Studies in Folklore.
Asia - Europe - America (Taipei: The Orient Cultural
Service, 1972). (a collection of 27 earlier folklore
studies).
" 'Out of the Horse's Mouth'," American Notes and Queries, 10 (1972), 72.
Review:
J. Harold Stephens, Echoes of a
Passing Era (Fairborn/Ohio 1972), in Proverbium, 18 (1972), 692.
1973
"Small Remarks," Proverbium, 21
(1973), 807.
"To Go Haywire (the last contribution
to Proverbium)." Proverbium, 22 (1973),
820.
1975
"The Collection and Study of Tales and
Proverbs," Béaloideas, 39-41 (1971-73,
published 1975), 320-328.
*Reprinted from Archer
Taylor's The Proverb and An Index to "The Proverb", Peter Lang, Bern, 1985, pp. XL- LIII.
Wolfgang Mieder
Department of German and Russian
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University of Vermont
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