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Iconclude this study of satire and Romanticism with a brief look at a nearly forgotten poet, Ebenezer Elliott. Once widely known and respected as the “Corn Law Rhymer,” he was in his strongest and most characteristic work a political satirist. When read as political satire rather than as the curious productions of an “uneducated poet” or the failed attempts of a “minor” late Romantic, Elliott’s verse shows its real power, as part of an alternative tradition reaching from Burns through “Junius” and “Peter Pindar” (Wolcot), to Hone and Wooler, incorporating parts of Shelley’s corpus, and to Chartist verse and other labor poetry.
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Jones, S.E. (2000). The Wheat from the Chaff: Ebenezer Elliott and the Canon. In: Satire and Romanticism. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780312299866_8
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