Short Name: | Ebenezer Elliott |
Full Name: | Elliott, Ebenezer, 1781-1849 |
Birth Year: | 1781 |
Death Year: | 1849 |
Elliott, Ebenezer, commonly known as the "Corn Law Rhymer," was born near Rotherham, Yorkshire, 1781, and died at Barnsley, in the same county, in 1849. The greater part of his life was spent in Sheffield, where he was engaged in the iron trade, and it was in a Sheffield newspaper that many of his poetical pieces first appeared.
He published:—
(1) Night, a Descriptive Poem, 1818. (2) The Village Patriarch, 1829. (3) Corn Law Rhymes, 1831. (4) Poems, 1834 ; and (5) More Prose and Verse, 1850.
A piece or two from these works have been adapted as hymns in some Unitarian Collections. They include "Another year is swallowed by the sea," for the old and new year.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Texts by Ebenezer Elliott (7)![]() | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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Another year is swallowed by the sea | Ebenezer Elliott (Author) | 4 | |
Idler, why lie down to die | Ebenezer Elliott (Author) | 3 | |
Land of the men who brought before | Ebenezer Elliott (Author) | 2 | |
Like a rootless rose or lily | Ebenezer Elliott (Author) | 2 | |
Right, men who make their being | Ebenezer Elliott (Author) | 2 | |
Sabbath holy, to the lowly | Ebenezer Elliott (Author) | English | 3 |
When wilt Thou save the people? | Ebenezer Elliott, 1781-1849 (Author) | English | 124 |