Arthur Upson

Arthur Wheelock Upson (January 10, 1877 – August 14, 1908) was an American poet.

He was born in Camden, New York, on January 10, 1877, to Spencer Johnson Upson and Julia Claflin.

[2] Upson died at age 31, drowning after falling from his boat in Lake Bemidji, Minnesota, on August 14, 1908.

[4] His collected poems, edited with an introduction by fellow poet Richard Burton, were published in 1908.

Burton also published "an elegy on the death" of Upson in 1910 entitled a Midsummer Memory.