Stoddard, Richard Henry

Stoddard, Richard Henry

▪ American critic and editor
born July 2, 1825, Hingham, Mass., U.S.
died May 12, 1903, New York, N.Y.

      American poet, critic, and editor, more important as a figure in New York literary circles in the late 19th century than for his own verse. Abraham Lincoln, An Horatian Ode (1865) and parts of Songs of Summer (1857) and The Book of the East (1867) can still be read with interest.

      Stoddard spent most of his boyhood in New York City, where he became a blacksmith and later an iron molder, but in 1849 he gave up his trade and began writing for a living. He served as a literary reviewer and editor for a number of New York newspapers and magazines. His wife Elizabeth was a novelist and poet, and their house was a leading gathering place for writers and artists in the last 30 years of the 19th century. Stoddard's autobiography, Recollections Personal and Literary, was published in 1903.

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