he lived," but goes on to surmise that this is meant to be a "somewhat idealised representation of the Corn Law Rhymer". In 1875, the work was removed from the city centre to Weston Park, where it remains. The statue figures no more clearly in John Betjeman's poem "An Edwardian Sunday, Broomhill, Sheffield". "Your own Ebenezer," he apostrophizes, "Looks down from his height/ On back street and alley/ And chemical valley", which he certainly does not. The poet's final city dwelling in 1834–1841 was in Upperthorpe, not Broomhill, and bears a blue plaque today. Furthermore, the inscription on the pedestal reads simply Elliott, with no mention of his given name. This is noted, among others, by the Sheffield poet Stanley Cook (1922–1991) in his tribute to the relocated statue. "It was not this dog's convenience wrote the poems," he comments, "But a man could be put together from passers-by" still angry at remaining injustices. Rotherham, Elliott's birthplace, was slower to honour him. In 2009 a work by Martin Heron was erected on what is now known as Rhymer's Roundabout, near Rotherham. Entitled "Harvest", it depicts stylised ears of corn blowing in the wind, as an allusion to the "Corn Law Rhymes". That same year the new Wetherspoons pub in Rotherham was named The Corn Law Rhymer and in March 2013 a blue plaque commemorating the poet was placed on the town's medical walk-in centre, marking the site of the iron foundry where he was born. References Attribution: Sources Keith Morris & Ray Hearne, Ebenezer Elliott: Corn Law Rhymer & Poet of the Poor, Rotherwood Press, Oct 2002, The Life, Poetry and Letters of Ebenezer Elliott", by John Watkins, pub. 1850 The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott, the Corn-law Rhymer, Edinburgh 1840 External links "Ebenezer Elliott", Rotherhamweb The Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott The Corn Law Rhymer & Poet of the Poor The Corn Law Rhymes of Ebenezer Elliott by Robert Southey Ebenezer Elliott biography & selected writings at gerald-massey.org.uk Archival material at 1781 births 1849 deaths Chartists Foundrymen History of Sheffield People from Rotherham English male poets People educated at Penistone Grammar School