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Edmund Clarence Stedman (October 8, 1833 - January 18, 1908), American
United States

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 poet
Poet

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, critic
Critic

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, and essayist was born at Hartford
Hartford, Connecticut

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, Connecticut
Connecticut

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, United States
United States

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.
tudied two years at Yale University
Yale University

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League....
; became a journalist in New York City
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, especially on the staffs of the Tribune
New York Tribune

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 and World
New York World

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, for which latter paper he served as field correspondent during the first years of the Civil War
American Civil War

The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
. As opportunity offered, he studied law and was for a time private secretary to Attorney-General Bates
Edward Bates

Edward Bates was a United States lawyer and statesman. He served as United States Attorney General under Abraham Lincoln from 1861 to 1864. He was also the brother of both Frederick Bates and James Woodson Bates....
 at Washington
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, and was a member of the New York Stock Exchange
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 in Wall Street
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 from 1865 to 1900.






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Edmund Clarence Stedman (October 8, 1833 - January 18, 1908), American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
, critic
Critic

The word critic comes from the Greek language ' , "able to discern", which in turn derives from the word ' , meaning a person who offers reasoned judgment or analysis, value judgment, interpretation, or observation....
, and essayist was born at Hartford
Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the Capital of the Connecticut. It is located in Hartford County, Connecticut on the Connecticut River, north of the center of the state, south of Springfield, Massachusetts....
, Connecticut
Connecticut

Connecticut is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. The state borders New York to the west and south , Massachusetts to the north, and Rhode Island to the east....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
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Biography

He studied two years at Yale University
Yale University

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League....
; became a journalist in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, especially on the staffs of the Tribune
New York Tribune

The New York Tribune was an American newspaper, first established by Horace Greeley in 1841, which was long considered one of the leading newspapers in the United States....
 and World
New York World

The New York World was a newspaper published in New York from 1860 until 1931. It played a major role in the history of American newspapers....
, for which latter paper he served as field correspondent during the first years of the Civil War
American Civil War

The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
. As opportunity offered, he studied law and was for a time private secretary to Attorney-General Bates
Edward Bates

Edward Bates was a United States lawyer and statesman. He served as United States Attorney General under Abraham Lincoln from 1861 to 1864. He was also the brother of both Frederick Bates and James Woodson Bates....
 at Washington
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
, and was a member of the New York Stock Exchange
New York Stock Exchange

New York Stock Exchange is a stock exchange based in New York City, New York. It is the largest stock exchange in the world by United States dollar market capitalization of its listed companies' Security ....
 in Wall Street
Wall Street

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 from 1865 to 1900. His first book, Poems, Lyrical and Idyllic, appeared in 1860, followed by successive volumes of similar character, and by collected editions of his verse in 1873, 1884 and 1897. His longer poems are Alice of Monmouth: an Idyl of the Great War (1864); The Blameless Prince (1869), an allegory of good deeds, supposed to have been remotely suggested by the life of Prince Albert; and an elaborate commemorative ode on Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer.Nathaniel Hathorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne....
, read before the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Society
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 in 1877.

An idyllic atmosphere is the prevalent characteristic of his longer pieces, while the lyric tone is never absent from his songs, ballads and poems of reflection or fancy. As an editor he put forth a volume of Cameos from Landor
Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor was an England writer and poet. His best known works were the prose Imaginary Conversations, and the poem Rose Aylmer, but the critical acclaim he received from contemporary poets and reviewers was not matched by public popularity....
 (with TB Aldrich
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American poet, novelist, traveler, and editor, born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire....
, 1874); a large Library of (selections from) American Literature (with Ellen M Hutchinson, 11 vols, 1888-1890); a Victorian Anthology (1895); and an American Anthology, 1787-1899 (1900); the two last-named volumes being ancillary to a detailed and comprehensive critical study in prose of the whole body of English poetry from 1837, and of American poetry of the 19th century.

This study appeared in separate chapters in Scribner's Monthly now the Century Magazine
Century Magazine

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, and was reissued, with enlargements, in the volumes entitled Victorian Poets (1875; continued to the Jubilee year in the edition of 1887) and Poets of America (1885), the two works forming the most symmetrical body of literary criticism yet published in the United States. Their value is increased by the treatise on The Nature and Elements of Poetry (Boston, 1892) a work of great critical insight as well as technical knowledge.

Stedman edited, with Ellen M. Hutchinson, A Library of American Literature (eleven volumes, 1888-90); and, with George E. Woodberry
George Edward Woodberry

George Edward Woodberry, Litt. D., LL. D. was an United States literary critic and poet....
, the Works of Edgar Allan Poe (ten volumes, 1895). After the death of James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell was an United States Romanticism poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets....
, Stedman had perhaps the leading place among American poets and critics.

In 1904, Edmund Clarence Stedman was one of the first seven chosen for membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters
The American Academy of Arts and Letters

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Literature

  • Stedman and Gould, Life and Letters of Edmund Clarence Stedman (two volumes, New York, 1910)
  • William Winter
    William Winter (author)

    William Winter was an United States dramatic critic and author.Born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Winter graduated from Harvard Law School in 1857....
    , Old Friends (New York, 1909)
  • (Online Edition)