xt7qjq0stw34_3706 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection Edmund Clarence Stedman clipping text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. Edmund Clarence Stedman clipping 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_36/Folder_59/Multipage12747.pdf undated section false xt7qjq0stw34_3706 xt7qjq0stw34 EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN.

Edmund Clarence Stedman, poet and critic, was born
October 8, 1833, in Hartford, Conn. He is the son of
Col. Edmund Burke Stedman and Elizabeth C. Dodge,
a lady distinguished for her literary ability as well as
for her beauty. After the death of Col. Stedrnan
and Mrs. Stedman’s subsequent marriage with the
Hon. William B. Kinney, United States Minister to
Turin, Edmund, then in his sixth year, was transferred
to the care of his great-uncle at Norwich, Conn.
Here he remained until he was sixteen, when he
entered Yale College, where he distinguished himself
by his Greek and Latin compositions, and his poem,
“Westminster Abbey " (printed in the Yale Lil‘emry
Illezgazz'ne), gained for him a first prize. He left
ollege at the age of nineteen, and became editor of
he Norwich Tribune. In 1853 he married Miss
laura Hyde Woodworth, and the following year
l-ecame editor of the Winsted (Conn.) Herald.

In 1856 he moved to New York City, where

e contributed to Vanity Fair, Putnam’s [Wont/11y,
Harper’s Mzgazine, and other periodicals. At the
outbreak of the Civil War he went to the front as
war-correspondent to the New York War/d, his crisp,
incisive style, keen powers of observation, and fine
imaginative faculty making his communications
models of what such articles should be. In 1865 he
settled down in New York as a broker in Wall Street,
in which business he is still engaged, his literary work
being all done after office hours and during his vaca-
tions.

Edmund Clarence Stedman ranks as one of the
foremost of the later American poets. His most
original vein is, perhaps, best seen in his light and
essentially lyrical pieces. But this is not to say that
these do not frequently show native power, fine fancy,
dramatic vigor, and tender and true sentiment.
" Fan in Wall Street" and “ The Lord's-Day Gale,”
are among the best of these.

Mr. Stedman’s poems which first attracted the
public attention were “The Diamond Wedding," a
brilliant social satire, ” Lager Bier,” and ” How Old
John Brown Took Harper's Ferry." These first
appeared in the New York Tribune, in 1859, and were
published later in book form, with other poems, under
the title, "Poems, Lyric and Idyllic." “Alice of
Monmouth," a picture of war experience in VVash-
ington and Virginia, during the first two years of the
war, written while he was in Washington, was his
next poetic production. This was followed by “ The
Blameless Prince," published in 1869, one of the
longest and most elaborate of his works.

In 1874, with T. B. Aldrich, he edited “ Cameos,”
selected from the works of Walter Savage Landor;
also, with an introduction, the Poems of Austin Dobson.
About 1875, Mr. Stedman began to devote himself to
critical writing, and contributed to Scriéner‘s Magazine
a series of sketches of the poets and poetry of Great

Britain from the accession of Queen Victoria to the
present time.
These were rewritten and published as ”Victorian

Poets." This volume is an elaborate review of con-
temporary English verse, constituting a most valuable
hand-book to the poetic literature of this period. Ten
years later he brought out in a similar manner ” Poets
of America," a critical review of American poets and

poetry than which we are unable to recall any truer
estimate of the literature of our age and country or
one expressed in a clearer and more captivating style.
The book has met with deserved success, having gone
through several editions. In 1877 was published
"Hawthorne, and other Poems; " this tribute to the
great novelist being the finest yet paid to his memory.
In 1884 a ” Household Edition " of Mr. Stedman’s
poems was brought out, and his whole works in three
volumes in 1885. He is now engaged with Miss
Ellen M. Hutchinson on “ A Library of American
Literature," to be completed in ten volumes, of which
six are now published. This when completed will be
the most thorough résumé of this great subject that
has ever been given to the public.

Mr. Stedman has on different public occasions read
his own poems, such as his “ Gettysburg," at the
annual meeting of the Army of the Potomac in
Cleveland, and the “ Dartmouth Ode,” before that
college in 1871, and his “ Monument to Greeley," at
the dedication of the monument to that great journal-
ist, of whom, especially in his younger days, Mr. Sted-
man was an ardent admirer.

He has been engaged at intervals during many
years on a complete metrical translation of the Greek
idyllic poets.