Raphael wrote:Then I remembered that my favorite American Transcendentalist lived with the Keats family in Louisville -- and he was ardently anti-slavery.
Who was that?
That was James Freeman Clarke -- the American Transcendentalist few have heard of. He was one of the charter "Transcendentalist Club" members at Harvard, along with the other better-known folks. He edited a small magazine called "The Western Messenger." It was within the pages of this magazine that some of John Keats's poetry first appeared on this side of the Atlantic.