(IN COMMEMORATION OF NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2013
"Now, Ad...)
IN COMMEMORATION OF NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2013
"Now, Adm–r–l! Now, Gr–nt! Now, G–de–n and A–dy!
On! R–ss–u, On! St–dm–n, On! C–st–r, my dandy!
We're off to Chicago: keep pace, large and small;
Now dash away, dash away, dash away all!"
One of the earliest works by Edmund Clarence Stedman of Connecticut, "A Reconstruction Letter" is a poetic satire in which William Henry Seward, New York politician, expresses his feelings on post-Civil War affairs to his friend and advisor, Thurlow Weed. The work received a privately printed run of 100 copies in 1866, and resurfaced in a 1916 issue of William Abbatt's The Magazine of History.
This Constitution reprint contains the original text of Stedman's poem, complete with notes by Abbatt and a letter to the poet by John R. Lowell.
(Genius and Other Essays
Edmund Clarence Stedman, american...)
Genius and Other Essays
Edmund Clarence Stedman, american poet, critic, essayist, banker, and scientist (1833-1908)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
-01- ABOUT THIS BOOK
-02- EDITORIAL NOTE
-03- GENIUS
-04- FOOTNOTES
-05- WHAT IS CRITICISM
-06- A BELT OF ASTEROIDS
-07- FOOTNOTES
-08- KEATS
-09- LANDOR
-10- WILLIAM BLAKE, POET AND PAINTER
-11- WHITTIER
-12- MR. BRYANT'S THIRTY POEMS
-13- MR. BRYANT'S HOMER
-14- STODDARD'S POEMS
-15- MRS. STODDARD'S NOVELS
-16- MRS. STODDARD'S POEMS
-17- STODDARD'S LAST POEM
-18- AUSTIN DOBSON
-19- FOOTNOTES
-20- EUGENE FIELD
-21- FOOTNOTES
-22- EDWIN BOOTH
-23- FOOTNOTES
-24- KING,THE FROLIC AND THE GENTLE
-25- GUY WETMORE CARRYL
-26- TREASURE TOMBS AT MYKENÆ
-27- FOOTNOTES
-28- SIDNEY LANIER
-29- JULIA WARD HOWE
-30- EMMA LAZARUS
-31- KIPLING'S BALLADS OF THE SEVEN SEAS
-32- WENDELL'S COTTON MATHER
-33- JULIET'S RUNAWAY, ONCE MORE
-34- FOOTNOTES
-35- TO FLORENCE EARLE COATES
-36- FOOTNOTES
A Library of American Literature From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. 3 of 11 (Classic Reprint)
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The Death of Captain Cook Russia and the Russians a Hundred Years The Traveller's Tribute to Woman.
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The New York Stock Exchange: Its History, Its Contribution to National Prosperity, and Its Relation to American Finance at the Outset of the Twentieth Century, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
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THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE ITS HISTORY. ITS CONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL PROS- PERITY, AND ITS RELATION TO AMERICAN FINANCE AT THE OUTSET OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN EDITOR ASSISTANT EDITOR ALEXANDER N. EASTON BIOGRAPHICAL EDITOR B. B. VALLENTINE OFFICE MANAGER W. J. FAIRMAN ART EDITOR OTTO H. BACHER SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS MATTHEW MARSHALL (THOMAS HITCHCOCK) JOHN RODEMEYER JOHN GROSVENOR WILSON HORACE L. HOTCHKISS MILTON J. PLATT JOHN R. DOS PASSOS EMERSON CHAMBERLIN HENRY I. JUDSON WILLIAM F. G. SHANKS VOLUME .
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The Inland City: A Poem and a Letter (Classic Reprint)
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Norwich is proud to claim Edmund Clarence Stedman as an adopted son and he is always ready to do honor to the home of his early youth. He came to Norwich at Jive years of age and lived with relatives in Norwich Town, attending school here until he was fitted for Yale College and returning at a later period to be the editor of a local newspaper. He has always kept his interest in the town and his friendship for many of its inhabitants.
Some years ago Mr. Stedman was invited to address the Norwich Town Rural Association at its annual meeting.
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A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of British Poetry in the Reign of Victoria (Classic Reprint)
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While this book is properly termed an Anthology, its scope is limited to the yield of one nation during a single reign. Its compiler's office is not that of one who ranges the whole field of English poetry, from the ballad period to our own time, thus having eight centuries from which to choose his songs and idyls, each round and perfect as a star. This has been variously essayed; once, at least, in such a manner as to render it unlikely that any new effort, for years to come, will better the result attained.
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Edmund Clarence Stedman was an American poet, critic, essayist, banker, and scientist. In addition to his literary achievements, Stedman pursued scientific and technical endeavors. In 1879, he proposed a rigid airship inspired by the anatomy of a fish. The airship never was built, but its design foreshadowed that of the dirigibles of the early decades of the 20th century.
Background
Edmund was born on October 8, 1833 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, the son of Maj. Edmund Burke Stedman and Elizabeth Clementine (Dodge) Stedman, who as Elizabeth C. D. Stedman Kinney became known as a poet and essayist.
On his father's side he was descended from Isaac Stedman, a London merchant who came to Scituate, Massachussets, about 1637. His mother was the great-grand-daughter of the Rev. Aaron Cleveland. Edmund Stedman, who was a lumber merchant, died when his son was two years old, and the boy, until he was six, was brought up on his maternal grandfather's farm at Plainfield, New Jersey.
Education
He received his early education at the "Old Brick Schoolhouse" and the "Old Academy" in Norwich.
He entered Yale in 1849, the youngest member of his class. Although he won the sophomore prize in English composition with a poem, "Westminster Abbey, " he neglected his class work and was rusticated at the end of the year to study under a tutor at Northampton, Massachussets, where instead of studying he fell in love with a neighboring damsel. He and another student started to tour New England as "the well-known tragedian Alfred Willoughby, and his sister Miss Agnes Willoughby"; their exposure after the first performance caused his expulsion from Yale.
He next studied law for several months in the office of his uncle.
Career
In 1852, in partnership with Charles B. Platt, Stedman bought the Norwich Tribune, which he edited for about half a year until it expired
In February 1854, in partnership with Stephen A. Hubbard, Stedman bought the Mountain County Herald at Winsted, Connecticut, which he edited until April 1855.
In the fall of 1859 the marriage of Frances Bartlett, a New York girl in her teens, to an aged but wealthy Cuban, Don Estaban de Santa Cruz de Oviedo, caused much unfavorable public comment, and Stedman made it the theme of a satiric poem, "The Diamond Wedding, " which, published in the New-York Daily Tribune, October 18, 1859, gained wide attention and commendation. Unwise threats of legal prosecution by the Bartlett family increased Stedman's reclame, further augmented by the publication of his popular "Ballad of Lager Bier, " "John Brown's Invasion, " and "Honest Abe of the West, " thought to be the first Lincoln campaign song.
He joined the staff of the New York World in August 1860, and during the same year published his first volume, Poems Lyrical and Idyllic. The outbreak of the Civil War sent him to the front as correspondent for the World, in which capacity he followed the campaigns of 1861. Being a violent partisan of the North, he thought he could do more efficient service for its cause by accepting a position in the attorney-general's office, in which he remained during 1862-63.
Then, returning to New York, he entered the banking firm of Samuel Hallett and Company, but the next year opened his own brokerage office, which he retained for the rest of his life.
In 1883 he bought an estate, "Kelp Rock, " at Newcastle, New Hampshire, as a summer residence, but he was rarely able to get away from his business to enjoy it. He took great delight, however, in his attractive colonial house in an artists' colony at Lawrence Park in Bronxville, New York.
He died in New York, survived by one son and a grand-daughter.
Achievements
Edmund Clarence Stedman was one of the founders of the Authors' Club, president of the American Copyright League, chairman of the American Committee of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association, president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and president of the New England Society.
He brought an unusually thorough and conscientious scholarship to the task of editing, and through his numerous anthologies, as well as through his own writings, he exercised a great influence on the American culture of the period.
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Views
Although he affected to regard the stock exchange as a mere means of livelihood, there can be no doubt that he had a real liking for business and thoroughly enjoyed the battles of the market. At the same time his love of literature was even more genuine, and after daily spending six hours on his feet in the stock exchange he devoted much of the night to writing.
Membership
He was a member of the Authors' Club, of the American Copyright League, of the American Committee of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association, and of the New England Society.
Personality
He had small and frail physique in his childhood, later he showed boyish prowess in fighting, running, and swimming.
Generous, kindly, and idealistic, he was quick to join any efforts to promote the prestige of literature or alleviate the hard lot of authors. Always immaculately dressed, with fine features and beautiful white beard, he was easily the most popular and most highly esteemed member of the New York literary circle of his day.
Interests
Writers
He wrote much juvenile poetry under the influence of the Romanticists and later of Tennyson, who became a lifelong admiration.
Connections
He was married to Laura Hyde Woodworth Stedman.
Father:
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Mother:
Elizabeth Clementine Dodge Kinney
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Edmund Stedman, who was a lumber merchant, died when his son was two years old, and the boy, until he was six, was brought up on his maternal grandfather's farm at Plainfield, N. J.
