WorkWilliam Ellery II Channing (the younger)
Poems (manuscript)
William Ellery II Channing (the younger) (1818–1901) · 1843
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Documented 1842–1846
Letters • Journals
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
“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.
“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.
“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.