Thomas Lake Harris

Thomas Lake Harris (1823–1906) was an English-born American poet, Universalist and Swedenborgian preacher, and spiritualist. He founded the Brotherhood of the New Life, communities which settled at Brocton, New York, and later at Santa Rosa, California.

He published a number of long visionary poems in the 1850s and after. Stedman’s An American Anthology (1900) prints his "California" and "Fledglings".