Stedman’s Critical Works Celebrated at NYC Authors Club
The Authors Club of New York hosted a December 6 reception for Edmund Clarence Stedman marking the completion of his critical volumes on English and American poetry. The collection includes Victorian Poets, The Poets of America, A Victorian Anthology, and the American Anthology, issued October 10.
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Authors Club of
New York City
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Authors Club
Mr. Stedman
W. D. Howells
Stedman Honored by Authors Club Reception
George Cary Eggleston presided as Mr. William Stedman received warm tribute at a December Authors Club event. He recalled friends like Warner and Stoddard while urging editors to avoid debt to their profession and praising publishers. Letters of regret from Hay Alden Mitchell Howells Mabie Van Dyke La Farge offered further high praise for Stedman’s American Anthology and literary leadership.
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George Cary Eggleston
Stedman
Eggleston
Richard Henry Stoddard
Webb
Winter
Aldrich
Pratts
Egglestons
Richard Grant White
Warner
Woo
Mr. Stedman
Hutchinson
Cortisson
Cortisson) Were Joint Edllors. Mr. Stedman
Lowell
Zekle
Rossiter Johnson
John Hay
Authors Club
H. M. Alden
Hamilton W. Mabie
Washington
Henry van Dyke
John LA Farge
Poems by Riley and Stedman Sent to Mr Stedman
Dr Johnson announced that a book from James Whitcomb Riley was received for Mr Stedman, with a poem written on the flyleaf. The lines were suggested to honor the prospective reception and addressed to Edmund Clarence Stedman.
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Dr. Johnson
James Whitcomb Riley
Stedmen
Edmund Clarence
Stedman
Tribute to Edmund Clarence Stedman at Authors Club 1900
The passage describes a Dec 6 1900 gathering of the Authors Club in New York honoring Edmund Clarence Stedman. Poets, scholars, scientists, historians, lawyers, editors, war correspondents and other luminaries praise his life of toil and dual gifts of song and service to art and labor. A letter and poem from Charles Henry Webb are read, with Webb’s lines praising Stedman’s kindness and support to younger writers.
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Authors Club
New York
Riley
Eggleston
Mr Winters Speech and Poem Reveres Poets Past
Mr William Winters eloquent address recalls youthful visits to Longfellow and Cambridge. He cites poets from Bryant to Shelley and urges poets to yield to emotion rather than self conciously critique, praising Stoddard and the muse as creative forces shaping poetry.
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Winter
William Winter
Longfellow
Cambridge
Bohemia
Prince
Old
New England
Montagu
Carib Sea
Alice of Monmouth
Ariel
Shelley
Emerson
Sexton
Napoleon
Stedman
Richard Henry Stoddard
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Stedmin
America
Donald G. Mitchell
Riley and
John Paul
Katrina Trask
Spencer Trask
John Leighton
Sterner
Harper & Brothers
Franklin Square
A. B
Howells
Morse
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