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EBENEZER JONES (182o-186o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 498 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JONES (182o-186o)  , See also:British poet, was See also:born in See also:Islington, See also:London, on the loth of See also:January 182o . His See also:father, who was of Welsh extraction, was a strict Calvinist, and Ebenezer was educated at a dull, See also:middle-class school . The See also:death of his father obliged him to become a clerk in the See also:office of a See also:tea See also:merchant . See also:Shelley and See also:Carlyle were his spiritual masters, and he spent all his spare See also:time in See also:reading and See also:writing; but he See also:developed an exaggerated See also:style of thought and expression, due partly to a defective See also:education . The unkind reception of his Studies of Sensation and Event (1843) seemed to be the last drop in his See also:bitter See also:cup of See also:life . Baffled and disheartened, he destroyed his See also:manuscripts . He earned his living as an accountant and by See also:literary hack See also:work, and it was not until he was rapidly dying of See also:consumption that he wrote his three remarkable poems, " See also:Winter Hymn to the See also:Snow," " When the See also:World is Burning" and "To Death." The fame that these and some of the pieces in the See also:early See also:volume brought to their author came too See also:late . He died on the 14th of See also:September 186o . It was not till 187o that See also:Dante See also:Gabriel See also:Rossetti praised his work in Notes and Queries . Rossetti's example was followed by W . B . See also:Scott, See also:Theodore See also:Watts-See also:Dunton, who contributed some papers on the subject to the See also:Athenaeum (September and See also:October 1878), and R .

H . See also:

Sheppard, who edited Studies of Sensation and Event in 1879 .

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