[1] He graduated at Harvard in 1832, then studied theology and in 1835 began to preach in Nahant, Massachusetts.

[2] In addition to his translations, he published theological writings, contributed to The Dial, a transcendentalist publication, and wrote a biography of William Ellery Channing, another Unitarian minister in Newport, Rhode Island (William Ellery Channing: A Centennial Memory, 1880).

On Alpine heights the love of God is shed; He paints the morning red, The flowerets white and blue, And feeds them with his dew.

On Alpine heights, in troops all white as snow, The sheep and wild goats go; There, in the solitude, He fills their hearts with food.

According to Appleton's Encyclopedia, several of Brooks' works were unpublished years after his death: Among his unpublished translations are Schiller's "Mary Stuart" and "Joan of Arc" (1840): the "Autobiography of Klaus Harms"; Richter's "Selina"; Grillparzer's "Ahn-frau"; Immermann's "Der letzte Tulifant," and Hams Sachs's play, "The Unlike Children of Eve," first acted in 1553.