The Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott |
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Editor:
| Mark Storey, Mark |
ISBN: | 978-1-61147-359-9 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2007 |
Publisher: | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $114.00 |
Book Description:
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This is the first modern selection of the poetry of Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849), best known in literary history as the self-styled "Corn Law Rhymer" because of his savage satirical poems published in the 1830s. This book will be of interest to students of Victorian literature and history, and indeed to anyone interested in the politics, poetics, aesthetics, and social history of the nineteenth century.
This is the first modern selection of the poetry of Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849), best known in literary history as the self-styled "Corn Law Rhymer" because of his savage satirical poems published in the 1830s. This book will be of interest to students of Victorian literature and history, and indeed to anyone interested in the politics, poetics, aesthetics, and social history of the nineteenth century.