Stedman
EDMUND CLARENCE, an American poet and banker; born in Hartford, Conn., Oct. 8, 1833; was a student at Yale, but did not graduate.
In 1852 he became editor of the Norwich "Tribune," and later of the Winsted "Herald." He was a war correspondent of the New York "World" during the American Civil War. In 1884 he became a stock broker in New York City.
He wrote: "Poems Lyric and Idyllic" (1860); "Alice of Monmouth, and Other Poems" (1864); "The Blameless Prince, and Other Poems" (1869); "Hawthorne, and Other Poems" (1877); "Lyrics and Idylls" (1879); "Poems Now First Collected" (1897); and poems for special occasions, the "Dartmouth Ode"; "Gettysburg"; etc. The best known of his critical works are: "Victorian Poets" (1875; revised and supplemented, 1887 and 1891); "Edgar Allan Poe" (1880); and "Poets of America" (1885). He edited in collaboration with Ellen M.
Hutchinson "A Library of American Literature" (1888-1890). He died Jan. 18, 1908.