Massachusetts minister and poet

I am a citizen of the United States, and a native of Massachusetts. I was born in 1811. I graduated at Harvard College in 1831, and studied afterwards at the Divinity School of Cambridge. In 1836, I became a minister of the Gospel. In 1840, I published a volume of poems. In 1841, I was a captain in the Massachusetts volunteers, in the Canadian expedition. In 1842, I wrote a prose work, called "Dial," and in 1843, another, called "The Brother." In 1844, I was an inhabitant of the earth, but dwelt in a lower sphere than this, and held converse with Eris, the spirit of discord. In 1845, I became an inhabitant of