About the Author
Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833 – 1908) was an American poet, critic, essayist and journalist, who acted as a field correspondent during the first years of the Civil War. His first book, Poems, Lyrical and Idyllic, was published in 1860. Among Stedman’s other works are A VictorianAnthology and An American Anthology, 1787-1899.
