The poetical works of Edmund Clarence Stedman

"The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman" by Edmund Clarence Stedman is an assembly of poems crafted in the late 1800s. This includes lots of poems of all kinds, full of the author's feelings and art. Stedman was a skilled poet in America, and his poems give us views into what it means to be human, along with nature, love, and problems in society using both song-like and story-telling poems. The collection contains sections noting additions from poems like “Bohemia: A Pilgrimage” and “The Diamond Wedding.” These works mix beautiful images of nature with the themes of love and memory, and the travels and lives of people that show bigger stories from society. Some poems, like “How Old Brown Took Harper's Ferry,” share historical thoughts in poem form, while “Penelope” talks about classical ideas of being faithful and waiting. The beginning sets the stage for Stedman's exploration of a poetic life mixed with personal and cultural thoughts.