Possible Clues:

• ___, Lake & Palmer
• Among schemers, one poet who extolled appeal of 11 25?
• American author being without power to engage me
• US writer's feature about rock band making a comeback
• Lecturer whom Melville called ''a great man''
• English sermon troubled American writer
• Individual, first off, has me engaged, a US poet
• Name linking Fittipaldi, Ralph Waldo and Roy
• American writer and leading exponent of transcendentalism (1803-1882)
• College in Boston