EBENEZER ELLIOTT
\ˈɛbənˌɛzəɹ ˈɛlɪət], \ˈɛbənˌɛzəɹ ˈɛlɪət], \ˈɛ_b_ə_n_ˌɛ_z_ə_ɹ ˈɛ_l_ɪ__ə_t]\
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An English popular poet, born in Masborough, near Sheffield, March 17, 1781; died at Great Houghton, near Barnsley. Dec. 1, 1849. At first a foundry hand, his peotic gift was used in denouncing the exploitation of the proletariat by a capitalistic oligarchy; yet the bitterness and exaggerated rhetoric one would expect are wholly absent from "Corn Law Rhymes" (1831) and "More Prose and Verse" (1850).
By Charles Dudley Warner
