Stoddard, Richard Henry

Richard Henry (1829-1903), an American poet and journalist. He was a native of Massachusetts. He went to New York while young, and for some time worked in an iron foundry. He soon began contributing short articles and poems to various periodicals and finally devoted his time entirely to literature. He was literary reviewer for the World, and later for the Mail and Express, in which capacity he did a vast amount of critical work and won a deserved reputation for careful and discriminating judgment. Among his books may be mentioned Footprints, Songs of Summer, The King's Bell, Life of Washington, The Lion's Cub, and Under the Evening Lamp.