Ebenezer Elliott


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"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.




Corn Law Rhymes


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Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott


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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.