Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . class to the 1852 he took up the profession of jour-nalism, and followed it with varying for-tunes, first in the country, afterwards in New York, for twelve years. During the first period of the CivilWar, he acted as a newspaper correspondent from Washington andthe Army of the Potomac. In 1864 he obtained a seat in the NewYork Stock Exchange, and has since that time doubled the pursuit ofliterature with the life of a man of active affairs. His home was inthe city of New York until 1896, when he removed his householdgods to the
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . class to the 1852 he took up the profession of jour-nalism, and followed it with varying for-tunes, first in the country, afterwards in New York, for twelve years. During the first period of the CivilWar, he acted as a newspaper correspondent from Washington andthe Army of the Potomac. In 1864 he obtained a seat in the NewYork Stock Exchange, and has since that time doubled the pursuit ofliterature with the life of a man of active affairs. His home was inthe city of New York until 1896, when he removed his householdgods to the quiet suburb of Bronxville, where he now resides. Mr. Stedmans first published volume was the * Poems, Lyric, andIdyllic* of i860. This was followed by <Alice of Monmouth and OtherPoems* (1864), <The Blameless Prince and Other Poems* (1869), and<Hawthorne and Other Poems* (1877). The conterfts of these fourvolumes were brought together in a < Household Edition,* publishedin 1884 in a single volume. Meanwhile, he had been devoting a XXIV—867. E. C. Stedman 13858 EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN growing amount of attention to critical work, which bore fruit in twoimportant volumes,— < The Victorian Poets* (1875), and <The Poets ofAmerica* (i886j. In 1892, a third volume was added to this sectionof his works in the shape of the course of lectures on < The Natureand Elements of Poetry * with which he had, in the year preceding,inaugurated the Percy TurnbuU memorial lectureship at the JohnsHopkins University. In the present year (1897) he has published as* Poems Now First Collected * the verse that has accumulated sincethe appearance of the ^Household Edition.* A few words about hisactivity as an editor and commentator will complete this account ofhis more important work, although a number of minor publicationshave been left unmentioned. From 1888 to 1890 he was engaged, incollaboration with Miss Ellen M. Hutchinson, in preparing ^A Libraryof American Literature * i
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