Richard Henry Stoddard's early years were rather Dickensian.
Compares the careers of R. H. Stoddard and Donald G. Mitchell. Gilder provides an overview of Stoddard's literary work as a poet and journalist.
Gilder asserts that "we have no truer poet than Mr. Stoddard to-day, none older or better known . . . It is meet that we should remember him, and pay tribute now and then to the beauty of his work and to the manliness of his life" (215).
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