Steve Ellis

Steve Ellis (born 1952) is a British poet and literary scholar and Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. He is known for his works on Chaucer, Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot. and also for his verse translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, 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