Charles Goodrich Whiting

Charles Goodrich Whiting (1842–1922) was an American critic of letters and art, born at St. Albans, Vermont. He grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts, and from 1866 was connected with the Springfield Republican, becoming its literary editor in 1874.

He wrote the poem for the unveiling of the soldiers' monument at Springfield in 1885 and published The Saunterer (1886), in prose and verse. Stedman included three of his poems in An American Anthology (1900), from which the poems here are taken.