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Reprints the recently rediscovered first publication of Channing’s poem “Walt Whitman” from the Boston Transcript, September 10, 1892. Yeats found the quality of exuberance in the figure of Walt Whitman, that most exuberant of poets, and I am fortunate in being able to illustrate my thesis with his sketch of a modern, secular St. Francis, whose poetry he has been reading as a pillow book, playing with the birds."7 Hofstra University JOANN P. KruEG NOTES Letters to W B. Yeats, ed. Richard J. Finneran, George Mills Harper, and William M. Murphy (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), 1:96,267. 2 The best source on Quinn is B. L. Reid, The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends (New York: Oxford University Press, 1968). 3 Finneran et aI., 1 :330. 4 Finneran et aI., 1:312. 5 Yeats to Quinn, May 5, 1914; quoted in Finneran et aI., 1:312. 6 Finneran et aI., 1:427. 7 "Sketches from Letters by Jack B. Yeats," The Irish Times (August 24, 1960), 8. THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF GRACE ELLERY CHANNING'S TRIBUTE TO WHITMAN As Joann P. Krieg has recently noted, Grace Ellery Channing's "connections to the world of nineteenth-century literature and to Whitman" merit more attention than they have hitherto received. 1 The granddaughter of William Ellery Channing, the niece of William Douglas O'Connor, as well as a close friend of and occasional collaborator with Charlotte Perkins Stetson (Gilman), Channing earned a modest reputation as a poet in her own right. She is perhaps best known today, however, as Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "co-mother" after she married the artist Charles Walter Stetson, Gilman's former husband, in 1894. Though O'Connor had offered Charlotte a copy of Leaves of Grass as early as 1883, she had been "obliged to decline" the gift because she "had promised Walter I would not read it."2 "I did not want her to think all men such animals as Whitman described them," as Stetson noted in his diary.3 Ironically, as the poem reprinted below suggests, Grace Channing, Stetson's second wife, championed the genius of Whitman, her uncle's friend. Channing apparently persuaded Charlotte to read Whitman after she ended her marriage to Stetson in 1890 and moved to Pasadena to live near the Channings. In any event, Charlotte soon began to quote such verses as "Beginners" and "Song of Myself" in her lectures, and as early as February 1891 she hailed Whitman as "America's greatest poet." Near the end of her life, in fact, Charlotte publicly declared that Whitman had been one of "our two greatest Americans."4 The first publication of Channing's poem "Walt Whitman" in the Boston Transcript for September 1 0, 1892, narrows its date of composition to the first

The First Publication of Grace Ellery Channing's Tribute to Whitman