David Atwood Wasson

David Atwood Wasson (1823–1887) was an American minister and Transcendentalist author, an essayist and poet, early influenced by Thomas Carlyle and usually regarded as a disciple of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The poems printed here are those given in The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse (1917), edited by D. H. S. Nicholson and A. H. E. Lee; the text is taken from that anthology.