POEMS BY RICHARD WATSON GILDER:

GILDER, RICHARD WATSON. Born in Bordentown, New Jersey, February 8, 1844; died in New York City, 1909. Mr. Gilder was one of the great editors of America, having been connected with the "Century Magazine" (formerly "Scribner's Monthly") from its founding in 1870 until his death about forty years later. He was associate editor during the incumbency of J.G. Holland, but at his death, in 1881, became editor-in-chief. When very young, during the Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania, he served in Landis' Philadelphia Battery, and had also a short period of studying law before he entered journalism. In his later years Mr. Gilder was active in many social reforms and never permitted literature to detach him from life. As a poet his work has a fine, if sometimes austere, quality. In the lyric, however, he was free and spontaneous and his best work is in a group of his songs.

This biographical note is reprinted from The Little Book of American Poets: 1787-1900. Ed. Jessie B. Rittenhouse. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1915.

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