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William Ellery Channing II (November 29, 1817 – December 23, 1901) was an American Transcendentalist poet, nephew and namesake of the Unitarian preacher Dr. William Ellery Channing. His uncle was usually known as "Dr. Channing", while the nephew was commonly called "Ellery Channing", in print.
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- Ellen K. Fuller Channing
- Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord
Reverend William Ellery Channing by Gilbert Charles Stuart, c. 1815. Oil on canvas. Housed at De Young Museum. William Ellery Channing (April 7, 1780 – October 2, 1842) was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews Norton (1786–1853), one of Unitarianism's leading theologians.
- 7 April 1780, Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.
- Unitarian preacher
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Famous poet / William Ellery Channing. 1817-1901. William Ellery Channing was a Transcendentalist poet, nephew of the Unitarian preacher Dr. William Ellery Channing. (His namesake uncle was usually known as "Dr. Channing," while the nephew was commonly called "Ellery Channing," in print.)
Complete Biography. William Ellery Channing was the third child of William and Lucy (Ellery) Channing, and was born at Newport, R.I., on the 7th of April, 1780. His mother, a lady of uncommon strength and excellence of character, was the daughter of William Ellery, who graduated at Harvard College in 1747, and was afterwards a distinguished ...
- Emily Mace
William Ellery Channing II. Biographical Introduction. The transcendentalist poet was born in Boston, the son of Dr. Walter Channing of Harvard Medical School and nephew and namesake of the Unitarian minister. He attended Boston Latin School and the Round Hill School in Northampton before entering Harvard College in 1834 and leaving without ...
- Emily Mace
Includes letters from William Ellery Channing to Ralph Waldo Emerson discussing poetry, The Dial, and lecture tours, and also letters from Channing to Elizabeth Hoar about their relationship, poetry, and mutual acquaintances. Digitized from the Harvard Collection.
As a poet, Channing could be fluent and pictorial, and his early poems were full of Transcendental abstractions. Thoreau termed his style "sublime-slipshod." Perhaps his most significant contribution was not poetry at all, but his biography of his friend of twenty years, Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist in 1873. He survived primarily through the ...
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