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Readers of Alcott's Journals are likely to feel about Alcott much as New Englanders of his day did-first interested, then exasperated, ultimately admiring and fond. Alcott was no parlor philosopher...
...JOURNALS OF BRONSON ALCOTT - Edited by Odell Shepard - Little, Brown...
...small but significant event in recent literary history has been the rediscovery of Bronson Alcott. Until two years ago this genial New England philosopher enjoyed an unread celebrity as the father of Louisa May Alcott, a friend of Emerson, one of the least coherent of the Transcendentalists, a slightly daffy but harmless mystic. Glimpses of Alcott in Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England exploded these literary myths. Odell Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Alcott, Pedlar's Progress, gave further proof of their injustice. This week the publication of long sections from Alcott...
This changed opinion of Alcott reveals a new view of old New England life. One popular biographical sport of the 1920s consisted of picturing Hawthorne, Emerson and their fellows as frustrated Puritans or insipid moralists. But Alcott was so indifferent to worldly success, so unintimidated by misfortune and so generally frank and good-natured that he corrects that exaggerated picture of the inhibited Yankee...
Biography. The award for distinguished U. S. biography was divided between: Odell Shepard for Pedlar's Progress, The Life of Bronson Alcott (TIME, May 10), $300, and former Pulitzer Prizewinner Marquis James for his two volumes on Andrew Jackson (TIME, April...