Gledstane-Waugh's query appears in issue number 106. DGR's "Ebenezer Jones" appears in issue number 110. H.P.'s query appears in issue number 127. DGR's "By this Shore a Plot of Ground, etc." appears in issue number 129.
EBENEZER JONES.—Can any of your
corre-
spondents supply me with particulars of the life
of the above-named
Chartist? He published a
volume in 1843, entitled
I hope Mr. Gledstanes-Waugh may receive
from other
sources a more complete account than
I can give of this remarkable poet,
who affords
nearly the most striking instance of neglected
genius in our
modern school of poetry. This is a
more important fact about him than
his being a
Chartist, which however he was, at any rate for
a time. I
met him only once in my life, I believe
in 1848, at which time he was
about thirty, and
would hardly talk on any subject but Chartism.
His
poems (the
Some years after meeting Jones, I was much
pleased to hear the great poet
Robert Browning
speak in warm terms of the merit of his work;
and I have
understood that Monckton Milnes (Lord
Houghton) admired the
“Studies” and interested
himself on their author's
behalf. The only other
recognition of this poet which I have observed is
the appearance of a short but admirable lyric by
him in the collection
called
eminent wood-engraver, now residing in New
York, who
could no doubt furnish more facts
about him than anyone else. It is
fully time
that attention should be called to this poet's
name, which is
a noteworthy one. It may not be
out of place to mention here a much
earlier and
still more striking instance of poetic genius which
has
hitherto failed of due recognition. I allude
to Charles J. Wells, the
author of the blank verse
scriptural drama of
In the Royal Academy Catalogue this year the
following lines are used as
epigraph to No. 492:
Can you inform me where the quotation comes
from?
“By this Shore a Plot of Ground,”
etc.
(4th S. v. 534.)—The noble
lyric in which these
lines occur is called