Edwin Ellis (poet)

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Blake facsimile (1893) by Edwin John Ellis

Edwin John Ellis (1848–1916) was a British poet and illustrator.

three-volume collection of the works of William Blake he edited with W. B. Yeats. It is now criticised, however, for weak scholarship, and preconceptions.[2]

Life

Ellis was a son of Alexander John Ellis.[3] He was a long-term friend of John Butler Yeats, sharing an interest in aesthetics, and from 1869 a London studio in Newman Street;[4] but was not on good terms with Susan his wife.[5]

Ellis was in an association with John Trivett Nettleship, and Sydney Hall, also followers of Blake, as well as John Butler Yeats and George Wilson (1848–1890, a Scottish Pre-Raphaelite inspired artist). Called The Brotherhood, the group was set up in 1869, with Hall leaving early.[6]

When the Yeats family moved to

Vala, or the Four Zoas.[8]

Ellis took part in the gatherings of the

anthologies.[3] R. F. Foster describes his relationship to W. B. Yeats as that of a collaborator, repaid as other rhymers or mentors were by inclusion in Yeats's Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935.[9]

Works

  • Fate in Arcadia, and other poems 1892
  • Facsimile of the original outlines before colouring of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience executed by William Blake 1893
  • The works of William Blake, poetic, symbolic and critical 1893 (with W B Yeats)
  • Seen in Three Days, 1893
  • The Real Blake; a portrait biography, 1907
  • Sancan the Bard

Family

Ellis was married, with a German wife who died around 1922.[3]

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-137-38245-0
    .
  2. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2585. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  3. ^ a b c "Edwin John Ellis Collection, University of Reading, Archive and Museum Database". Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  4. ISBN 978-0-8156-0725-0
    .
  5. ISBN 978-0-19-288085-7
    .
  6. ISBN 978-0-8156-0725-0
    .
  7. ISBN 978-0-19-288085-7
    .
  8. ISBN 978-0-19-288085-7
    .
  9. ISBN 978-0-19-158425-1
    .

External links

Media related to Edwin John Ellis at Wikimedia Commons

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