David Atwood Wasson

David Atwood Wasson (1823–1887) was an American minister and Transcendentalist author, an essayist and poet. He was early influenced by Thomas Carlyle, an influence he would shed;[1] he is usually regarded as a disciple of Ralph Waldo Emerson.[2]

Life

He was born in West Brooksville, Maine. He studied at Phillips Academy, Andover and Bowdoin College for just one year from 1845. After theological training at Bangor Theological Seminary, he became pastor at Groveland, Massachusetts, but only briefly after a conflict with his congregation. He then moved to Worcester, Massachusetts.[3] He lost a position at the Medford Unitarian Church because of his abolitionist views.[4]

He was appointed by the "28th Congregational Society" of Boston, and succeeded Unitarian radical Theodore Parker, who died in 1860, in 1865.[5][6] In 1867 he became a founder of the Free Religious Association.[7]

Works
  • The Radical Creed: A Discourse At The Installation Of Rev. David A. Wasson, As Minister of the Twenty Eighth Congregational Society of Boston, May 7, 1865. Delivered by the Pastor Elect (1865)
  • Poems By David Atwood Wasson (1888)
  • Beyond Concord; Selected Writings of David Atwood Wasson (1965), edited Charles H. Foster

Notes
  1. David R. Sorensen (editor), The Carlyles at Home and Abroad: Essays in Honour of Kenneth J. Fielding (2004), p. 129.
  2. BOOKFORUM | Summer 2005
  3. David Atwood Wasson Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography
  4. Charles E. Heller, Portrait of an Abolitionist: A Biography of George Luther Stearns, 1809-1867 (1996), p. 125.
  5. "David Atwood Wasson". Archived from the original on 2008-05-12. Retrieved 2008-03-23.
  6. Theodore Parker Archived 2012-05-30 at the Wayback Machine
  7. "514 Transcendentalists, Abolitionism, and the Unitarian Association". Archived from the original on 2008-07-05. Retrieved 2008-03-23.
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References
  • Robert Spence, D. A. Wasson, Forgotten Transcendentalist, American Literature, Vol. 27, No. 1 (March 1955), pp. 31–41
  • Robert C. Albrecht, The Political Thought of David A. Wasson, American Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Winter, 1965), pp. 742–748
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