Edmund Clarence Stedman

Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) was an American poet and critic, born at Hartford, Connecticut. He earned his living as a stockbroker in New York while writing poetry and criticism, and edited, with Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, the Library of American Literature.

His critical books Victorian Poets (1875) and Poets of America (1885) were standard works; his own verse includes the satirical “Pan in Wall Street”.