Edwin J. Ellis

Edwin John Ellis (1848 – 1916) was a British poet and illustrator, now remembered mostly for the three-volume collection of the works of William Blake he edited with W. B. Yeats.

Ellis was a long-term friend of John Butler Yeats, and met his son William Butler when the Yeats family moved to Bedford Park in London. The study of Blake, with Ellis, proved an intellectual investment for Yeats the son on which he drew in later years.

Ellis took part in the gatherings of the Rhymers' Club, and contributed to their anthologies. Other than that, he was in an association with John Trivett Nettleship, and Sidney Hall, also followers of Blake, as well as John Butler Yeats and George Wilson (1848-1890, a Scottish Pre-Raphaelite inspired artist), called The Brotherhood.

Poetry

 * Fate in Arcadia, and other poems. London: Ward and Downey, 1892.

Fiction

 * The Greymare Romance. London: George Allen, 1891.

Non-fiction

 * Facsimile of the original outlines before colouring of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience executed by William Blake (introduction by Ellis). London: B. Quaritch, 1893.
 * The works of William Blake, poetic, symbolic and critical (memoir by and interpretation by Ellis and Yeats) Volume 1. London: B. Quaritch, 1893.
 * Volume 2; Volume 3.
 * The Real Blake; a portrait biography. New York: McClure Phillips, 1907.

Edited
==See also
 * The Poetical Works of William Blake (2 volumes) Volume 1. London: Chatto & Windus, 1906.
 * The Poetical Works of William Blake (2 volumes) Volume 2. London: Chatto & Windus, 1907.
 * List of British poets