RICHARD WATSON GILDER BIOGRAPHY
RICHARD WATSON GILDER BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
GILDER, RICHARD WATSON (1844-1909). —Poet, born at Borderstown, New Jersey, was successively a lawyer, a soldier, and a journalist, in which last capacity he ed. Scribner's (afterwards the Century ) Magazine . He holds a high place among American poets as the author of The New Day (1875), The Celestial Passion , The Great Remembrance , Five Books of Song (1894), In Palestine (1898), In the Heights (1905), A Book of Music (collection) (1906), etc.