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Steve Ellis (literary scholar)

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Steve Ellis
Born1952 (age 71–72)
York, England
EducationUniversity College London (PhD)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Birmingham
ThesisThe poets' Dante from Shelley to T. S. Eliot (1981)

Steve Ellis (born 1952) is a British poet and literary scholar and Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham.[1] He is known for his works on Chaucer, Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot.[2][3] and also for his verse translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, published in 2019.

Works

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  • Dante and English Poetry: Shelley to T. S. Eliot (1983)
  • Home and Away (1987)
  • West Pathway (1993)
  • Verse translation of Dante's Hell (1991)
  • The English Eliot: Design, Language, and Landscape in Four Quartets (1991)
  • British writers and the approach of World War II
  • Chaucer at large: the poet in the modern imagination
  • Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
  • T. S. Eliot: a guide for the perplexed
  • Virginia Woolf and the Victorians

References

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  1. ^ "Steve Ellis". Poetry Archive.
  2. ^ Riehle, Wolfgang (1995). "Review of The English Eliot. Design, Language and Landscape in 'Four Quartets'". AAA: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik. 20 (2): 421–423. ISSN 0171-5410. JSTOR 43025484.
  3. ^ Klein, H.M. (1 September 1984). "Reviews : Dante and English Poetry: Shelley to T. S. Eliot. By Steve Ellis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. 280 pp. £20". Journal of European Studies. 14 (55): 225–227. doi:10.1177/004724418401405508. ISSN 0047-2441. S2CID 162511199.