Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833–1908)

US poet and writer. He wrote rather imitative sentimental poetry, as in Poems, Lyrical and Idyllic (1860), but had some influence with his critical studies and anthologies such as Poets of America (1885) and An American Anthology (1900).

He was born in Hartford, Connecticut. His father died when he was two, and he was raised by his maternal grandfather 1835–39, and by his uncle in Norwich, Connecticut He studied at Yale in 1849–51, then worked for various newspapers in Connecticut and New York City. He ran his own brokerage house in New York City 1864–1908, and lived in Bronxville, New York.