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Edmund Clarence Stedman
American writer
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- Died:
- Jan. 18, 1908, New York, N.Y. (aged 74)
- Subjects Of Study:
- English literature
- poetry
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 edited the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Walter Savage Landor and was an important figure in the New York literary world. His Poetical Works ...(100 of 109 words)