About
American poet, author, mystic, and clergyman associated with the Transcendentalism movement. He is most remembered for an 1839 work entitled Essays and Poems.
Before Fame
He attended Harvard University and Harvard Divinity School and became a Shakespearean scholar.
Trivia
He was prone to psychological disturbances and was institutionalized for a time.
Family Life
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, he was the illegitimate child of first cousins.
Associated With
He was a contemporary of author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
