Clarence Victor Stahl

Clarence Victor Stahl was an American poet born in 1885 and died in 1973. He is best documented through the publication of The Sinking of the Titanic, and Other Poems, issued in 1915, and through later public-domain and library records that preserve his work.

What survives suggests a writer of occasional and reflective verse rather than a major literary celebrity. His poetry has remained accessible through library catalogs and Project Gutenberg, which helps keep his name in circulation even though biographical details about his life are limited.

Because reliable published information on Stahl is scarce, much of his personal story is still hard to trace with confidence. Even so, the record of his poems gives him a small but lasting place in the history of early twentieth-century American verse.