Richard Henry Stoddard

Abraham Lincoln: an Horatian Ode Richard Henry Stoddard

Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode was written as a poem in 1865 by American critic and poet Richard Henry Stoddard. Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 ? April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination. As president, he led the country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis?the American Civil War?preserving the Union while ending slavery and promoting economic and financial modernization.