George Willis Cooke

George Willis Cooke (1848–1923) was an American writer, lecturer and Unitarian minister. After serving several Unitarian congregations in the Midwest and New England, he devoted himself to writing and lecturing on literature and religion. He published early critical studies of Ralph Waldo Emerson and George Eliot, a guide to the poetry of Robert Browning, a bibliography of James Russell Lowell, a history of Unitarianism in America and an anthology of Transcendentalist poets. His work did much to introduce the ideas of the Transcendentalists and of contemporary English writers to American readers.