Word: keatsian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Channing could only glimpse the Keatsian stars and the Thoreauvian mornings. While he looked inward in an age that insisted the truth was outside the self. Channing advanced, Delbanco reminds us, toward the Transcendentalist belief in the internalized, of the divine without reaching it. The author's compelling analysis claims that Channing "is willing to seek truth in the mental process itself." He "discredits" history, "dismantles" nature, and assails the law as he comes closer to understanding his own human head. Delbanco affirms "he has affinities with Emerson, with William James. But he has no school." In an age when...