Stedman, Edmund Clarence

Edmund Clarence (1833-), an American poet and critic. He studied at Yale University and began early to contribute to various New York periodicals. In 1869 he went into business in New York, and was for many years a member of the stock exchange. He published several volumes of verse. Among them may be mentioned Poems Lyric and Idyllic, Hawthorne and Other Poems, and The Blameless Prince and Other Poems. Among his prose writings Victorian Poets, published in 1875, is the best and most widely known. It has passed through many editions. Poets of America, A Victorian Anthology, and An American Anthology are other prose works.