Stoddard Richard Henry
Richard Henry Stoddard (July 2, 1825 - May 12, 1903) was an American critic and poet. Richard Henry Stoddard was born on July 12, 1825, in Hingham, Massachusetts.[1] He spent most of his boyhood in New York City, where he became a blacksmith and later an iron moulder, but in 1849 he gave up his trade and began to write for a living. He contributed to the Union Magazine, the Knickerbocker Magazine, Putnam's Monthly Magazine and the New York Evening Post. In 1853 Nathaniel Hawthorne helped him to secure the appointment of inspector of customs of the Port of New York. He was confidential clerk to George B. McClellan in the New York dock department in 1870-1872, and city librarian of New York in 1874-1875; literary reviewer for the New York World (1860-1870); one of the editors of Vanity Fair; editor of the Aldine (1869-1874), and literary editor of the Mail and Express (1880-1903). He died in New York on the May 12, 1903. More important than his critical was his poetical work, which at its best is sincere, original and marked by delicate fancy, and felicity of form; and his songs have given him a high and permanent place among American lyric poets. His wife, Elizabeth Drew Stoddard was also a novelist. This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
Abraham Lincoln
- Author: Stoddard Richard Henry
- Genre: Historical
Richard Henry Stoddard (1825 - 1903), an American poet and critic, became the author of a classic poem about the life of Abraham Lincoln. It is a poetical tribute to this American president, a picture of his personality and contribution to the history of the country.
recollections personal and literary
- Author: Stoddard Richard Henry
- Genre: Classics
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the lions cub with other verse
- Author: Stoddard Richard Henry
- Genre: United States
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songs of summer
- Author: Stoddard Richard Henry
- Genre: General
Originally published in 1856. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
under the evening lamp
- Author: Stoddard Richard Henry
- Genre: Literature & Fiction
Originally published in 1892. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
burlesque
- Author: Stoddard Richard Henry
- Genre: American literature
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE PARISH REVOLUTION. BY THOMAS HOOD. Alarming News from the Country. Awful Insurrection at Stoke Pogis. The Military called out. Flight of the Mayor. ]E are concerned to state, that accounts were received in town at a late hour last night, of an alarming state of things at Stoke Pogis. Nothing private is yet made public; but report speaks of very serious occurrences. The number of killed is not yet known, as no despatches have been received. FURTHER PARTICULARS. Nothing is known yet. Papers have been received down to the 4th of November; but they are not up to any thing. FURTHER, FURTHER PARTICULARS. (Private Letter?) It is scarcely possible for you, my dear Charles, to conceive the difficulties and anarchical manifestations of turbulence, which threaten and disturb your old birthplace, poor Stoke Pogis. To the reflecting mind, the circumstances which hourly transpire afford ample food for speculation and moral reasoning. To see the constituted authorities of a place, however mistaken or misguided by erring benevolence, plunging into a fearful struggle with an irritated, infuriated, and, I may say, armed populace, is a sight which opens a field for terrified conjecture. I look around me with doubt, agitation, and dismay; because, whilst I venerate those to whom the sway of a part of a State may be said to be intrusted, I cannot but yield to the conviction that the abuse of power must be felt to be an overstep of authority in the best intentioned of the magistracy. This even you will allow. Being on the spot, my dear Charles, an eye-witness of these fearful scenes, I feel how impossible it is for me to give you any idea of the prospects which surround Hie. To say that I think all will end well is ftrespass beyond the confines of hope; but...
personal recollections of lamb hazlitt and others
- Author: Stoddard Richard Henry
- Genre: History
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THOMAS CAMPBELL. The " New Monthly Magazine." j]Y first personal introduction to Campbell took place in 1830, at the house of a person with whom, by one of those temporary-caprices to which, in his latter years, he so habitually yielded, Campbell had contracted an intimacy as little suitable, it might have been supposed, to his refined literary tastes and fastidious personal habits, as it certainly was to the general tone of his intellectual character; for the person to whom I refer, though possessing considerable talents and extensive influence in connection with the newspaper press, was a man of coarse mjnd, and of almost ostentatiously profligate personal habits. Not but there were features in Campbell's mind and character capable of accounting for this temporary intimacy. In the first place, it must be admitted that, notwithstanding the excessive fastidiousness of his taste and habits in all matters connected with his position and reputation as the first of living poets (for such at that time he was considered), Campbell partook of that propensity to which another kind of kings are said to be addicted â that of a lurking fondness for " low company ;" not " low " in this case, in the ordinary sense of the term, as implying persons of low condition and mean mental endowments, but as indicating that freedom from conventional restraints which always springs from a low tone of moral sentiment, when accompanied by an open and bold-faced repudiation of those principles of personal conduct which form thebasis of all cultivated society. And Campbell's mind had a .strong tendency to throw off the restraints in question, without the strength of will to do so, even if his high tone of moral feeling had not stood in the way of the stepâwhich it certainly would have done. T...
the life travels and books of alexander von humboldt
- Author: Stoddard Richard Henry
- Genre: United States
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER H. STUDIES AND DREAMS. In the summer of 1789, Campe. who had been for some years canon and councillor in Brunswick, determined to make a trip to Paris, to be present at the funeral of French despotism, and it was deemed advisable for William to accompany him. They arrived in Paris on the 3d of August. Not being fortunate enough while there to follow Tyranny to its grave, Campe revenged his disappointment by doing what most authors would have done in his placehe wrote patriotic letters in favor of the revolution, and attracted much attention. Alexander remained behind, probably at Gottingen, pursuing his favorite studies, and constantly corresponding with Forster, who was then at Mayence, where he was councillor and librarian of the University. The plan of the great transatlantic journey, formed a year or two before, was laid aside for a time, in order that he might study what was then a new scienceGeology. He was deep in the writings of the then celebrated geologist, Abraham Gottlob Werner. In his peculiar department of science Werner was undoubtedly the most remarkable man of his time. The son of a poor iron-worker, he commenced his career as a 18 WEKNEK, THE GEOLOGIST. mineralogist in the Mineralogical Academy of Freyberg, before he was out of his teens. From thence he went to Leipsic, where he busied himself in defining the external character of minerals, experimenting, and eventually, in 1774, publishing a work on the subject Up to that time the descriptive language of mineralogists had been too indefinite to convey accurate information, or to enable those of different countries to understand each other. After publishing this work, which was long a manual, Werner returned to the Mineralogical Academy at Freyberg, and took charge of its noble cabinet of...