Genius, and other essays

by Edmund Clarence Stedman

GENIUS AND OTHER ESSAYS

BY

EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN

NEW YORK

MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY

1911

Copyright, 1911, by

MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY

New York

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Published, September, 1911

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	Genius	1
II.	What is Criticism?	38
III.	A Belt of Asteroids	46
IV.	Keats	82
V.	Landor	91
VI.	William Blake, Poet and Painter	102
VII.	Whittier	107
VIII.	Mr. Bryant's "Thirty Poems"	111
IX.	Mr. Bryant's "Homer"	125
X.	Stoddard's Poems	141
XI.	Mrs. Stoddard's Novels	154
XII.	Mrs. Stoddard's Poems	159
XIII.	Stoddard's Last Poem	166
XIV.	Austin Dobson	174
XV.	Eugene Field	183
XVI.	Edwin Booth	193
XVII.	King—"The Frolic and the Gentle"	215
XVIII.	Guy Wetmore Carryl	220
XIX.	Treasure Tombs at Mykenæ	225
XX.	Sidney Lanier	250
XXI.	Julia Ward Howe	254
XXII.	Emma Lazarus	264
XXIII.	Kipling's Ballads of "The Seven Seas"	268
XXIV.	Wendell's "Cotton Mather"	274
XXV.	Juliet's Runaway, Once More	280

EDITORIAL NOTE

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