The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN. STEDMAN, Edmund Clarence, an Americanpoet and critic, born at Hartford, Conn., October8, 1833. He studied at Yale College about twoyears. In 1852 he became editor of the WinstedHerald, in Litchfield County, Conn., which heconducted until 1855, when he removed to NewYork. In 1859 he became connected with theNew York Tribjine. In i860 he put forth his firstvolume, Poems, Ly
The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN. STEDMAN, Edmund Clarence, an Americanpoet and critic, born at Hartford, Conn., October8, 1833. He studied at Yale College about twoyears. In 1852 he became editor of the WinstedHerald, in Litchfield County, Conn., which heconducted until 1855, when he removed to NewYork. In 1859 he became connected with theNew York Tribjine. In i860 he put forth his firstvolume, Poems, Lyric and Idyllic, containing manypieces which had already appeared in the same year he became connected with theNew York World, and during the first two yearsof the Civil War he was the Washington corre-spondent of that journal. In 1864 he abandonedjournalism as a profession, and became a stock-broker in New York, but was active in literarypursuits. His subsequent volumes of poems areAlice of Monmouth, and Other Poems (1864); TheBlameless Prince, and Other Poems (1869). As acritic and historian of literature he has attained aforemost place. His principal works in this de-partment
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