Stedman,

Stedman, EDMUND CLARENCE, American poet and critic, was born at Hartford, Connecticut, 8th October 1833. He studied at Yale and early took to journalism, was war-correspondent of the New York World during the war, but ultimately became a stockbroker at New York. He contributed actively to the more important magazines, and published his first volume of verse in 1860. His critical work Victorian Poets appeared in 1875, and has gone through many editions. The Poets of America appeared in 1886, but naturally proved less interesting. The Library of American Literature, edited in conjunction with Ellen M. Hutchinson, completed in 1890, fills 11 volumes. The 'Household Edition' of his poems appeared in 1884.