William Ellery Channing

William Ellery Channing (1817–1901), known as Ellery Channing, was an American Transcendentalist poet, born in Boston and nephew of the Unitarian minister of the same name. He contributed to The Dial and lived at Concord, Massachusetts.

A close friend and walking companion of Henry David Thoreau, he wrote the first full-length life of him, Thoreau: The Poet-Naturalist (1873). His own verse appeared in Poems (1843) and later volumes.