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Give me to die unwitting of the day, / And stricken in Life’s brave heat, with senses clear!
Mors Benefica.
Edmund Clarence
Stedman
Edmund Clarence Stedman
 
1833–1908, American banker, poet, and critic, b. Hartford, Conn., attended Yale. A successful Wall St. broker, he was also one of the leading poets of his time;… he compiled the excellent collections A Victorian Anthology (1895) and An American Anthology (1900).—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press.
 
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WORKS
 
An American Anthology, 1787–1900
These 1740 selections by 573 authors comprise an unparalleled verse anthology in its concentration on representing a century of poetic culture rather than selecting the laureates only.
 
A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895
These 1,274 works by 343 authors represent the full course of one of the great literary ages of English verse.
 
Bartlett’s Stedman Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
 
 
ANTHOLOGIZED VERSE
 
Pan in Wall Street, Ballad of Lager Bier, Edged Tools, Undiscovered Country, World Well Lost, Si Jeunesse Savait!, Provençal Lovers, Kearny at Seven Pines, Hypatia
 
 
WRITINGS ABOUT STEDMAN
 
Later Poets: Stedman” & “Later Essayists: Stedman
Sections with bibliography from the Cambridge History of American Literature.



 

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