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| | §4. Ernest Jones. VI. Lesser Poets of the Middle and Later Nineteenth Century. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part ... |
 | | This brief biography does not sound very promising; but, as a matter of fact, Jones was not a bad poet. |
 | | Even his Songs of Democracy redeem their inevitable claptrap with less spitefulness than Ebenezer Elliotts (though Elliott was a prosperous, and Jones a very unlucky, man) and by an occasional humour of which the Sheffield poet was incapable. |
 | | And, when Jones would let politics alonepolitics which, on whatever side the subject be taken up, seldom inspire any but the satiric musehe could, as in some of his pieces on the Crimean war and in others, more general, such as The Poets Parallel, show real poetic power. |
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