Amos Bronson Alcott

Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) was an American teacher, philosopher and Transcendentalist, born at Wolcott, Connecticut. He taught young children in Connecticut and Boston, founded the Temple School in Boston in 1834 and later lived in Concord, Massachusetts, among Emerson and Thoreau. He was the father of Louisa May Alcott.

His verse is mostly sonnets in honour of his friends and contemporaries, gathered in Sonnets and Canzonets (1882). Stedman printed eight of them in An American Anthology (1900).