Stedman examines the causes of certain American poets’ successes and failures. He discusses “Early and Recent Conditions, ” the “Growth of the American School, ” as well as poets such as Whittier, Lowell, Whitman, Longfellow, and Poe. This 1885 volume is a sequel to his earlier Victorian Poets (1875); the two works formed the most symmetrical body of literary criticism yet published in the United States up to that time.
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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 Victorian Anthology and An American Anthology, 1787-1899.
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