Ebenezer Elliott

Ebenezer Elliott
Author: Keith Morris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2002
Genre: Corn laws (Great Britain)
ISBN:

"Ebenezer Elliott was the original 'unacknowledged legislator' as his contemporary Shelley called poets. His passion for social justice and for free trade to provide the cheapest possible food for the working class of South Yorkshire helped change politics in a way that few poets have managed in history." -- foreword, p. 1.

Class and the Canon

Class and the Canon
Author: K. Blair
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2012-11-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 113703033X

Examining how labouring-class poets constructed themselves and were constructed by critics as part of a canon, and how they situated their work in relation to contemporaries and poets from earlier periods, this book highlights the complexities of labouring-class poetic identities in the period from Burns to mid-late century Victorian dialect poets.

Corn Law Rhymes

Corn Law Rhymes
Author: Ebenezer Elliott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1831
Genre: Corn laws (Great Britain)
ISBN:

Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott

Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott
Author: Ebenezer Elliott
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2008
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780838641347

Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849) is best known in literary history as the self-styled Corn Law Rhymer because of his savage satirical poems published in the 1830s. With detailed introduction and explanatory notes, this work is intended to bring Elliott's work into the public domain, directed at both students of the period and the general reader.