Talk:Richard Henry Stoddard

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He was also a contemporary and friend of Herman Melville's and eulogised him on his death. See Merton M Sealts Jr.'s article, Melville and Richard Henry Stoddard, American Literature (43), 1971.

== Citation problems ==

This article uses language from other sources without attribution. For example, the last paragraph of the biography section appears to come from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica: "More important than his critical was his poetical work, which at its best is sincere, original and marked by delicate fancy, and felicity of form; and his songs have given him a high and permanent place among American lyric poets. His wife, Elizabeth Drew Stoddard was also a novelist." The language itself is a bit archaic, certainly not the authors's own. It also represents a dated critical judgment. Not many people nowadays would say Stoddard has a "high and permanent place" in literary history.Pwestove (talk) 02:39, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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