WorkWilliam Ellery Channing

“The Earth”

"The Earth" (in Poems

William Ellery Channing (1780–1842)

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Documented 1843

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Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

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  • 1843The EarthAttested

    “William addressed them in the morning on the destiny of the Earth, and then I read aloud Ellery's poem "The Earth".”

    Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · Night preceding New year's day 1844

    Explicit statement: 'then I read aloud Ellery's poem The Earth'.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1843—

Brook Farm, New Year's Eve

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“I read aloud Ellery's poem "The Earth".”

Fuller, Margaret. "Brook Farm, New Year's Eve." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 3, Folder: 135.