Confessions of Boyhood

John Albee (1833-1915) was a popular American poet, biographer and author. He wrote sonnets and poems, some of his best known works being In memory of Gerald FitzGerald; Killed in Battle on the Rappahannock (1865) and St. Aspenquid of Mt. Agamenticus: An Indian Idyl (1879). His first collection of poems, entitled Poems, appeared in 1883. He abandoned the orthodox theology in which he had been trained for the liberal theism or pantheism of Emerson. In Remembrances of Emerson (1903), Albee wrote,