Edmund Clarence Stedman — a remark

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“Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music.”

Sincerity of feeling set above studied effect · Essay, Poets of America (1885)

About Edmund Clarence Stedman

Edmund Clarence Stedman

8 October 1833–18 January 1908

In the heart of nineteenth-century American letters stands a figure who defied easy categorization, a man who straddled two seemingly incompatible worlds with remarkable grace. Edmund Clarence Stedman, born on October 8, 1833, in Hartford, Connecticut, would become known as the "Bard of Wall Street," a sobriquet that…

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