WorkWilliam Ellery II Channing (the younger)

“The Bible Is a Book Worthy to Read" — poem first published in The Dial, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 229–231”

William Ellery II Channing (the younger) (1818–1901) · October 1840

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Documented 1839

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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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 →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to Caroline Sturgis

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“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.