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William Ellery Channing

About the Author

William Ellery Channing (1818-1901) was born in Boston. The Transcendentalists considered him one of their best poets. In addition to being the first biographer of his friend and colleague Henry David Thoreau, he is speculated to be “The Poet” in Thoreau’s Walden. He frequently contributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s magazine The Dial.