Edmund Clarence Stedman

Edmund Clarence Stedman (born Oct. 8, 1833, Hartford, Conn., U.S.—died Jan. 18, 1908, New York, N.Y.) was a poet, critic, and editor, whose writing was popular in the United States during the late 19th century. Stedman attended Yale, from which he was expelled, and became successively a newspaper proprietor and a stockbroker, writing all the while. As a critic Stedman wrote of contemporary authors in Victorian Poets (1875) and Poets of America (1885); he also...