Richard Watson Gilder

Editor and writer, born in Bordentown, New Jersey, USA. As editor of what became the Century Magazine (1881–1909), he helped make it one of the most distinguished literary magazines of its time. He was also a prolific poet, and wrote several studies of Abraham Lincoln.

Richard Watson Gilder (1844 – 1909) was an American poet and editor.

Gilder was born at Bordentown, New Jersey. He was the brother of Jeannette Leonard Gilder and Joseph Benson Gilder.

During the American Civil War, he enlisted in the state's Emergency Volunteer Militia as a private in Landis's Battery at the time of the Robert E. After the Confederates were defeated in the Battle of Gettysburg, Gilder and his unit were mustered out in August.

With Newton Crane, he founded the Newark Register and later was editor of Hours at Home and edited Scribner's Monthly (afterwards the Century Magazine). Gilder took an active interest in all public affairs, especially those which tend towards reform and good government, and was a member of many New York clubs.

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, and Other Poems (1898), Poems and Inscriptions (1901);