The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . York stockexchange and became a broker. He published atthis period; Alice of Monmouth, an Idyl of the LateWar, and Other Poems (New York, 1864); TheBlameless Prince, and Other Poem
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . York stockexchange and became a broker. He published atthis period; Alice of Monmouth, an Idyl of the LateWar, and Other Poems (New York, 1864); TheBlameless Prince, and Other Poems (Boston, 1869),and, in 1873, a collective edition of his PoeticalWorks, containing the well-known poems, Panin Wall Street, Toujours Amour, The Door-step, etc. In 1871 he read his Gettysburg Ode be-fore the reunion of G. A. R. in Cleveland, O.; hisDartmouth Ode before Dartmouth college; his Monument of Greeley at the dedication in Green-wood cemetery of the printers monument to HoraceGreeley, and his Death of Bryant before theCentury club. With Thomas B. Aldrich he editedCameos, a selection of choice passages from theworks of Walter Savage Landor (Boston, 1874).He also edited Poems of Austin Dobson (NewYork, 1880), prefaced by an admirable critical intro-duction. During the last ten or fifteen years has devoted his literary talents mainly tothe field of criticism, in which he is an acknowledged. master. His articles on Tennyson and Theocritusand The Victorian Poets, appearing respectivelyin the Atlantic Monthly and Scribners Maga-zine, were the precursors of his Victorian Poets and Poets of America, the best standard works onthis period of English poetry. The criticisms arenot distinctively original in treatment, but arelearned, judicial, discriminating, and guided by analmost unerring taste. Mr. Stedman has been longengaged in a translation of Theocritus into Englishhexameters, a work which will probably be one ofhis greatest literary successes. In 1888 he edited
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