Jones, Ebenezer (1820-1860)

English poet. His three remarkable poems, ‘Winter Hymn to the Snow’, ‘When the World is Burning’, and ‘To Death’, were written when he was dying.

He was born in Islington, London. The early death of his father cut short his education, and compelled him to become a clerk in a tea-merchant's office. His defective education is apparent in his first volume of poetry, Studies of Sensation and Event 1843, which was unfavourably received, although admired by Robert Browning and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.