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STODDARD, RICHARD HENRY (1825-1903)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 939 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STODDARD, See also:RICHARD See also:HENRY (1825-1903) , See also:American author, was See also:born in See also:Hingham, See also:Massachusetts, on the 2nd of See also:July 1825. He spent most of his boyhood in New See also:York See also:City, where he became a blacksmith and later an See also:iron moulder, but in 1849 he gave up his See also:trade and began to write for a living. He contributed to the See also:Union See also:Magazine, the See also:Knickerbocker Magazine, See also:Putnam's Monthly Magazine and the New York Evening See also:Post. In 1853 Nathaniel See also:Hawthorne helped him to secure the See also:appointment of inspector of customs of the See also:Port of New York. He was confidential clerk to See also:George B. McClellan in the New York See also:dock See also:department in 1870—1872, and city Iibrarian of New York in 1874-1875; See also:literary reviewer for the New York See also:World (1860-1870); one of the editors of Vanity See also:Fair; editor of the Aldine (1869-1874), and literary editor of the See also:Mail and See also:Express (188o-i9o3). He died in New York on the 12th of May 1903. Among the numerous books that he edited are The Loves and Heroines of the Poets (1861); Melodies and Madrigals, Mostly from the old See also:English Poets (1865); The See also:Late English Poets (1865), selections; See also:Griswold's Poets and See also:Poetry of See also:America (1872), and See also:Female Poets of America (1874); The See also:Brie-a-Brat See also:Series, in 10 vols. (1874-1876); English See also:Verse, in 5 vols. edited with W. J. See also:Linton (1883); and four See also:editions of See also:Poe's See also:works, with a memoir (1872-1894). His See also:original poetry includes Footprints (1849), privately printed and afterwards suppressed; Poems (1852) ; the juveniles, Adventures in Fairyland (1853); See also:Town and See also:Country (1857), and The See also:Story of Little Red See also:Riding See also:Hood (1864); Songs of Summer (1857); The See also:King's See also:Bell (1862), one of his most popular narrative poems; See also:Abraham See also:Lincoln: A Horatian See also:Ode (1865), The See also:Book of the See also:East (1867), Poems (188o), a collective edition; and The See also:Lion's Cub, with Other Verse (189o).

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Life, Travels and Books of See also:Alexander von See also:Humboldt (186o) ; Under the Evening See also:Lamp (1892), essays dealing mainly with the See also:modern English poets; and Recollections Perscnal and Literary (1903), edited by See also:Ripley See also:Hitchcock. More important than his See also:critical was his poetical See also:work, which at its best is sincere, original and marked by delicate See also:fancy, and felicity of See also:form; and his songs have given him a high and permanent See also:place among American lyric poets. His wife See also:ELIZABETH See also:DREW (BARSTOW) STODDARD (1823 1902), poet and novelist, was born in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, on the 6th of May 1823. She studied at See also:Wheaton See also:Seminary, See also:Norton, See also:Mass. After her See also:marriage in 1852 she assisted her .See also:husband in his literary work, and contributed stories, poems and essays to the See also:periodicals. She wrote three novels—The Morgesons (1862), Two Men (1865) and See also:Temple See also:House (1867), and a See also:volume of poems (1895). A new edition of her novels was issued in 1901. She died in New York on the 1st of See also:August 1902.

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