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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903)

Stoddard, Richard Henry. An American lyric poet of distinction; born at Hingham, MA, July 2, 1825; died at New York City, May 12, 1903. His poems have been published under the titles: ‘Songs of Summer’ (1856); ‘Abraham Lincoln: A Horatian Ode’ (1865); collectively, under ‘Poems’ (1880), and ‘The Lion’s Cub’ (1890). For many years he edited the New York Mail and Express, also at times the New York World. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).