ELLIS, GEORGE

ELLIS, GEORGE
   literary critic, born in London; did much to promote the study of early English literature; contributed to the Anti-Jacobin, and was joint-author of the "Rolliad," a satire on Pitt, and of "Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances"; Scott declared him to be the best conversationalist he had ever met (1753-1815).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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