Author
William Ellery II Channing (the younger) is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and journals (1839–1846). 7 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
Books Emerson sent or offered, his secondhand reports, and his own references — never counted in Fuller’s totals.
Emerson: “a pretty good success... more readable than any thing he has published”
Publication assessment · Myerson, letter of 29 August 1847 (page locator provisional)
Emerson's own context; not evidence of Fuller's reading.
“From the poems of W. E. Channing, a poem called "Reverence," equally remarkable for the deep wisdom of its thought and the beauty of its utterance [...] "As an ancestral heritage revere / All learning, and all thought...”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“The Bible is a book worthy to read, / The life of those great prophets was the life we lead / From all delusive seeming ever freed [... full poem transcribed in letter]”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
“Of Ellery's verse I think not much; I am ill at appreciating a nature so noble, yet with no constructiveness and no force of will.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
“The Dirge is more and more beautiful, and others feel it no less than I. S. Ward no less.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
“to read me some lines he had been writing … I copied it without his knowledge, for I look on it as an inspired expression of the truth that ought to be kept on record.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal Fragments, 1842." Margaret Fuller Family Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“Ellery's poem, "The Earth" gave me singular pleasure.”
Fuller names both author ("Ellery") and title ("The Earth") explicitly, reporting that the poem "gave me singular pleasure." Hudspeth identified the work as Ellery Channing's "The Earth," published in the July 1843 Dial; William Ellery Channing the younger (1818–1901) was a poet and nephew of the great Unitarian minister William Ellery Channing.
“His "letters" too look better yet in print. I hope he will continue and print the whole while the Dial yet lives.”
Inferred Fuller refers to Ellery Channing's serial epistolary fiction in the July 1843 Dial, calling them "letters." Hudspeth identified this as "The Youth of the Poet and the Painter".She comments on the work and expresses hope the serial will continue.
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
“From W. E. C.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Inferred Channing (William Ellery Channing the younger, 1818–1901), identifying it as one of "two little poems addressed to me," and Hudspeth identified the poem appears "with slight changes" in the "Sonnets" section of Channing's Poems.
“From the poems of W. E.”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
Appendix D: Explicitly attributed '1st. Explicitly attributed to W.E.
“I have marked in the index, with a pen three or four of Ellery Channing's poems that, I think, may please you. The pencil-marks are not mine.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Inferred Fuller marks several poems by William Ellery Channing II in the index of a volume she is sending to Ireland, recommending them personally. Though she names the author but not the collection, the nearly certain candidate is Poems (Boston: James Munroe, 1843), Channing's first and only substantial published collection before 1846, which was reviewed in The Dial.