# Hector Stuart — Poetry character guide

> Hector Stuart in Poetry by Ambrose Bierce.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Stuart

**First appearance:** 0000-poetry

## Who they are

A ruined West Point cadet with one eye and a wandering mind, he turns his cannon mishap into a grimly comic meditation on war's absurdities.

## In the story

### [My Lord Poet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/my-lord-poet)

Addressed as a Scottish prince with a fall from grace, lacking nobility, and warned against overreaching in poetry.

### [An Epigrammatist](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/an-epigrammatist)

The epigrammatist who writes an epigram in a terse mood.

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