Steve Ellis (born 1952) is a British poet and literary scholar and Professor of English Literature at the

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

. He is known for his works on

Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer (; – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for '' The Canterbury Tales''. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He w ...

Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born i ...

and T. S. Eliot. and also for his verse translation of

Dante Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: '' ...

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Divine Comedy The ''Divine Comedy'' ( it, Divina Commedia ) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun 1308 and completed in around 1321, shortly before the author's death. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and ...

'', published in 2019.

Works

* ''Dante and English Poetry: Shelley to T. S. Eliot'' (1983) * ''Home and Away'' (1987) * ''West Pathway'' (1993) * Verse translation of Dante's ''Hell'' (1991) * ''The English Eliot: Design, Language, and Landscape in Four Quartets'' (1991) * ''British writers and the approach of World War II'' * ''Chaucer at large: the poet in the modern imagination'' * ''Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales'' * ''T. S. Eliot: a guide for the perplexed'' * ''Virginia Woolf and the Victorians''

References

1952 births 20th-century British poets 21st-century British poets British literary critics Academics of the University of Birmingham Alumni of University College London Living people {{UK-academic-bio-stub