Richard Henry Stoddard
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Richard Henry Stoddard was an American critic and poet.
Portrait of Richard Henry Stoddard
Portrait of a young Stoddard
Photograph of Stoddard. Housed at Library of Congress.
The Poets and Poetry of America was a popular anthology of American poetry collected by American literary critic and editor Rufus Wilmot Griswold. It was first published in 1842 and went into several
Richard Henry Stoddard
…The Late English Poets (1865), selections Griswold's The Poets and Poetry of America (1872) Female Poets of America (1874…
Title page of the 1855 edition of The Poets and Poetry of America
Frontispiece featuring images of popular poets including Richard Henry Dana Sr., William Cullen Bryant, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Charles Fenno Hoffman was allotted twice as much space as any other poet in the first edition of The Poets and Poetry of America.