Stedman, Edmund Clarence

Ct., 1833- ——. A poet and literary critic of New York city, for many years a member of the Stock Exchange there. His volumes of verse include, Poems: Lyric and Idyllic; The Prince’s Ball; The Battle of Bull Run; Alice of Mon mouth; Idyl of the Great War, and Other Poems; The Blamele Prince; Hawthorne, and Other Poems; Lyrics and Idyls; Poems, Household Edition; The Star Bearer. His other works comprise, Octavius Brooks Frothing ham and the New Faith; Victorian Poets; Poets of America; The Nature and Elements of Poetry. His most important labours as editor have been, A Library of American Literature (with E. M. Hutch in son, supra ); The Works of Poe (with G. E. Wood berry, infra ); A Victorian Anthology. See Vedder’s American Writers; Foley’s American Authors, 1897. Hou.