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Odell Shepard (1884-1967). Courtesy Great Thoughts Treasury.

Odell Shepard (July 22, 1884 - July 19, 1967) was an American poet, academic, and politician.

Life[]

Shepard was born in Sterling, Illinois.

He graduated from Harvard University.

He was a professor of English at Trinity College, Yale University, from 1917 to 1946.[1] He was a mentor to Abbie Huston Evans,[2] and to Hyam Plutzik.[3]

He edited the works of Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Shepard wrote a biography of Bronson Alcott, the father of writer Louisa May Alcott and one of the foremost Transcendentalists: Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott, published by Little, Brown in 1937.[4]

He served as the 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1941 to 1943.[5]

He died in New London, Connecticut.

Recognition[]

Shepard won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize in Biography or Autobiography for Pedlar's Progress: The life of Bronson Alcott (1937).[6]

He was a winner of the Golden Rose Award.

His papers are held at Trinity College.[1]

Publications[]

Poetry[]

Novels[]

  • Holdfast Gaines (with Willard Shepard). New York: Macmillan, 1946.
  • Jenkins' Ear: A narrative attributed to Horace Walpole, esq. (with Willard Shepard). New York: Macmillan, 1950.

Non-fiction[]

  • Browning's Shorter Poems: Lectures by Odell Shepard of Trinity College. Hartford, CT: Pyne Printery, [1922?]
  • Bliss Carman. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1923.
  • The Harvest of a Quiet Eye: A book of digressions (illustrated by Beatrice Stevens). Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1927.
  • The Joys of Forgetting: A book of bagatelles (with foreword by Walter de la Mare). London: Allen & Unwin, 1928; Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1929; Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1969.
  • Thy Rod and thy Creel. Hartford, CT: E.V. Mitchell / New York: Dodd, Mead, 1930.
  • The Lore of the Unicorn. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930; London: Allen & Unwin, 1930.
  • Pedlar's Progress: The life of Bronson Alcott. . Boston: Little, Brown, 1937.
  • Connecticut: Past and present. New York: Knopf, 1939.

Books on Shakespeare[]

Edited[]

  • Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. New York: Scribner, 1921.
  • Essays of 1925. Hartford, CT: E.V. Mitchell, 1926.
  • Henry David Thoreau, The Heart of Thoreau's Journals. Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1927.
  • Essays of Today, 1926-1927 (edited with Robert Hillyer). New York & London: Century, 1928.
  • Contemporary Essays. New York & Chicago: Scribner, 1929.
  • English Prose and Poetry, 1660-1800 (edited with Paul Spencer Wood). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934, 1962.
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Representative Selections. New York: American Book Co., 1934.
  • Bronson Alcott, The Journals of Bronson Alcott. Boston: Little, Brown, 1938.


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[7]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/News_Events/reporter/fall06/archival.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/evans.htm
  3. ↑ Edward Moran, "Thoughts on Hyam Plutzik, Letter from a Young Poet," Newscenter, University of Rochester. Web, Dec. 21, 2018.
  4. ↑ archive.org
  5. ↑ List of lieutenant governors of Connecticut, Wikipedia, May 25, 2015, Wikimedia Foundation. Web, Aug. 1, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Biography or Autobiography". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
  7. ↑ Search results = au:Odell Shepard, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Aug. 1, 2015.

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