"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."
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Richard Garnett, "Jones, Ebenezer", in Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 30 (1892), p. 97
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Ebenezer Jones
(20 January 1820 – 14 September 1860) was an English poet. He wrote a good deal of poetry of very unequal merit, but at his best shows a true poetic vein. He was befriended by Browning and Rossetti.
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