Who is William Ellery Leonard

William Ellery Leonard (January 25, 1876, in Plainfield, New Jersey – May 2, 1944, in Madison, Wisconsin) was an American poet, playwright, translator, and literary scholar.Early lifeWilliam Ellery Channing Leonard was born on the family homestead in Plainfield, New Jersey on January 25, 1876. His parents, admirers of the transcendentalist movement, named him after William Ellery Channing, a mentor to Ralph Waldo Emerson. His father, William James Leonard, was a newspaper editor. However, by 1890, he was unable to financially support his family with this profession. Three years later, he returned to ministry. He accepted an appointment with a Unitarian church in Bolton's Landing, Massachusetts and moved the family there. He joined Phineas Quimby's New Thought movement and left the Unitar...
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William Ellery Leonard Poems

• Indian Summer
  (After completing a book for one now dead)
  
  (O Earth-and-Autumn of the Setting Sun,
  She is not by, to know my task is done.)...
• Compensation
  I know the sorrows of the last abyss:
  I walked the cold black pools without a star;
  I lay on rock of unseen flint and spar;
  I heard the execrable serpent hiss;...

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• Saltydog615: "de rerum natura: the latin text of lucretius (latin and english edition) paperback – august 8, 2008 english edition by lucretius (author), william ellery leonard (editor)"
• Scottandpark: in the autumn of 1940, lewis visited his old acquaintance, william ellery leonard, in madison, wisconsin. leonard arranged a meeting with the chancellor of the university of wisconsin-madison and a tour of the campus.
• 5starresultsnow: difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.the human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.- william ellery channingthere is a crack in everything, that\'s how the light gets in.- leonard cohen if life were predictableit wou
• Elitefitnessah: difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.the human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.- william ellery channingthere is a crack in everything, that\'s how the light gets in.- leonard cohen if life were predictableit wou
• Elitefitnessah: difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.the human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.- william ellery channingthere is a crack in everything, that\'s how the light gets in.- leonard cohen if life were predictableit wou

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