Charles Francis Richardson

Charles Francis Richardson (1851–1913) was an American critic and poet, born at Hallowell, Maine. He graduated at Dartmouth College, where he became professor of English literature in 1882, having served on the staff of the Independent from 1872 to 1878.

His books include a Primer of American Literature (1878), the verse collection The Cross (1879) and a two-volume History of American Literature (1887–89). Stedman included three of his poems in An American Anthology (1900), from which the poems here are taken.