Who is Ebenezer Jones

Ebenezer Jones (20 January 1820 – 1860) wrote a good deal of poetry of very unequal merit, but at his best shows a true poetic vein. He was befriended by Browning and Rossetti.

Life

He was born in Canonbury Square, Islington on 20 January 1820. His father was of Welsh background; his mother, Hannah Sumner, was of an Essex family. They were strict Calvinists. His father died, and at 17 he was a clerk in a city firm connected with the tea-trade.Jones was for a short time a follower of Robert Owen. He assisted his friend W. J. Linton with political journalism, and worked for the radical publishers John Cleave and Henry Hetherington. He went down with consumption, and died on 14 September 1860.

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Jones as a poet was influenced by Percy S...
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Ebenezer Jones Poems

  • When The World Is Burning
    When the world is burning,
    Fired within, yet turning
    Round with face unscathed;
    Ere fierce flames, uprushing,...
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Top 10 most used topics by Ebenezer Jones

Dance 1 Fire 1 World 1 Gentle 1 Blue 1 Earth 1 Shade 1 Great 1 Small 1 Face 1


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Icdb_tv: penybont vs the new saints is on bbc iplayer (geo/r). with commentary from nic parry. coverage presented by dylan ebenezer. co-commentator is owain tudur jones. reporter is sioned dafydd. for more details see
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