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.
He studied at Phillips Academy, Andover and Bowdoin College for just one year from 1845.
[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.