“A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.”
About 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…