Eneas Sweetland Dallas
British journalist and writer
Eneas Sweetland Dallas (E. S. Dallas) (1828–1879) was a Scottish journalist and writer.
Biography
E.S. Dallas was the elder son of John Dallas of Jamaica, a planter of Scottish parentage, and his wife Elizabeth (née Baillie), the daughter of the Rev. Angus McIntosh of Tain and sister of Rev. Caldor McIntosh. He was born in Jamaica in 1828 and was brought to England when he was four years of age. He was educated at the Edinburgh University, where he studied philosophy under Sir William Hamilton, and acquired the habit of applying notions derived from eclectic psychology to the analysis of aesthetic effects in poetry, rhetoric, and the fine arts.
His first publication in which he proved his mastery of this line of investigation was entitled Poetics, an Essay on Poetry, a work which he produced in 1852, while he resided in London. He first gained notice in London by sending an article to The Times, a critique which by its vigour and profundity secured immediate attention.
For many years afterwards, he was on John Thadeus Delane's staff at The Times, where he wrote biography, politics, and literary criticism.
Dallas also contributed to the Daily News, the Saturday Review (London), the Pall Mall Gazette, and the World.
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