Poems of Amos Bronson Alcott: Amos Bronson Alcott was a 19th-century American writer, philosopher and experimental teacher. In his educational role he turned the traditional teaching method on its head, preferring to engage his students in conversation rather than being the autocratic figure at the front lecturing to a silent class. He also had a great social conscience outside of the classroom, being a champion for women’s rights and a supporter of the abolition of slavery.
Amos Bronson Alcott
He was born on the 29th November 1799 in Wolcott, Connecticut. He had very little formal education, preferring to wander the countryside around his childhood home of Spindle Hill. He later said of this time:
Her response was “I wish I could” and Amos Bronson Alcott died three days later on the 4th March 1888. He was 88 years old. Louisa May did, indeed, follow her father “up”, as she died two days later.
Poems of Amos Bronson Alcott:
- Bartol
- Channing
- Emerson
- Garrison
- Channing
- Emerson
- Hawthorne
- Margaret Fuller
- Sonnet 16
- Thoreau
- Wendell Phillips
