Steve Ellis (literary scholar)
British poet and literary scholar
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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.
Born1952 (age 73–74)
York, England
EducationUniversity College London (PhD)
InstitutionsUniversity of Birmingham
Steve Ellis | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1952 (age 73–74) York, England |
| Education | University College London (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Birmingham |
| Thesis | The poets' Dante from Shelley to T. S. Eliot (1981) |
Works
- 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