Edwin Ellis (poet)

[1] He is now remembered mostly for the three-volume collection of the works of William Blake he edited with W. B. Yeats.

[3] He was a long-term friend of John Butler Yeats, sharing an interest in aesthetics, and from 1869 a London studio in Newman Street;[4] but was not on good terms with Susan his wife.

[5] Ellis was in an association with John Trivett Nettleship, and Sydney Hall, also followers of Blake, as well as John Butler Yeats and George Wilson (1848–1890, a Scottish Pre-Raphaelite inspired artist).

Their joint study of Blake began in 1889, and resulted in a major textual discovery, the manuscript of Vala, or the Four Zoas.

[8] Ellis took part in the gatherings of the Rhymers' Club, and contributed to their anthologies.