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An Historical and Biographical Introduction to Accompany the Dial as Reprinted in Numbers for the Rowfant Club
An Historical and Biographical Introduction to Accompany the Dial as Reprinted in Numbers for the Rowfant Club Author:George Willis Cooke General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1902 Original Publisher: Rowfant Club Subjects: The Dial/ a magazine for literature, philosophy, and religion. Boston, 1841-44 Dial (Boston, Mass.) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. W... more »hen you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Ill THE TRANSCENDENTAL CLUB In his " Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England " Emerson mentions Edward Everett, Channing, Swedenborg, phrenology, the spirit of criticism, and other influences, as amongst those that were at work in the early part of the nineteenth century to produce "an eagerness for reform which showed itself in every quarter." One of these influences of first importance was the revival of the poetic spirit in England, especially by Coleridge and Wordsworth. Channing was largely indebted to Coleridge for incentives to his more spiritual interpretation of theological problems and for his idealism. When he was in England, in 1823, he visited Coleridge, and the latter wrote to Washington Allston of his American visitor: " He has the love of wisdom and the wisdom of love. I feel convinced," Coleridge also wrote, "that the few differences in opinion between Mr. Channing and myself not only are, but by him would be found to be, apparent, not real, -- the same truth in different relations. Perhaps I have been more absorbed in the depth of the mystery of the spiritual life, he more engrossed by the loveliness of its manifestations." Elizabeth Peabody has enthusiastically recorded the interest Channing felt in the writings of Coleridge, and the satisfaction he found in his spiritual philosophy. Channing was also largely indebted to Wordsworth for intellectual stimulus and satisfaction, and he had for him what his biographer called a "revere...« less