Ebenezer Jones

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Biography

Ebenezer Jones was an English poet who wrote a good deal of poetry of very unequal merit, but at his best shows a true poetic vein. He was befriended by Robert Browning and Christina Rossetti.

"There can be no question of Jones's genius; his infirmities were those of most young poets, especially the self-taught; his latest productions show that his faults had gradually cured themselves, and that he needed nothing but fortitude to have taken a distinguished place among English poets. Personally he was as amiable as enthusiastic, deficient only in steadiness of purpose and virtues of the self-regarding order."

Ebenezer Jones