William Ellery Channing II (29 November 1817-23 December 1901), in his youth known as a Transcendental poet, is today best remembered as Thoreau's first biographer. He was born at Boston into a well-c...
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Edgar Allan Poe, who as a critic always knew how to find the heart with his first bullet, wrote of William Ellery Channing II in the opening flourish of his 1843 annihilation of the young poet's first...
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William Ellery Leonard, scholar, teacher, translator, and poet, was highly acclaimed for the heroism and technical achievement in his long poem Two Lives (1923). Calling it "the best poem that has eve...
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William Ellery Channing, II