Ernest Percival Rhys (1859 – 1946)

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Ernest Percival Rhys (/riːs/; 17 July 1859 – 25 May 1946) was a Welsh-English writer, best known for his role as founding editor of the Everyman's Library series of affordable classics. He wrote essays, stories, poetry, novels and plays.


Rhys was born in London, and brought up in Carmarthen and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. After working in the coal industry, he was employed doing editorial work on the Camelot Series of 65 reprints and translations from 1886, for five years, while he turned to writing as a profession. He was a founder member in 1890 of the Rhymers' Club in London, and a contributor to The Book of the Rhymers' Club (1893).

In 1906, Rhys persuaded J. M. Dent, the publisher, for whom he was working on The Lyric Poets series, to start out on the ambitious Everyman project, aiming to publish 1000 titles; the idea was to put out ten at a time. The target was eventually reached, ten years after Rhys died.



Works
The Great Cockney Tragedy (1891)
A London Rose: and other rhymes (1894) poems
The Fiddler of Carne (1896) Prose
Welsh Ballads (1898) poems
Gwenevere: Lyric Play (1905)
Lays of the Round Table (1905) poems
The Masque of the Grail (1908)
Enid: a lyric play written for music (1908)
London: The Story of the City (1909)
Lyric Poetry (1913) criticism
English Fairy Tales (1913) with Grace Little Rhys
The Leaf-Burners (1918) poems
The Growth of Political Liberty (1921)
Lost in France (1924) poems
Blackhorse Pit (1925) novel
Everyman Remembers (1931) autobiography
Rhymes for Everyman (1933) poems
Letters from Limbo (1936)
Song of the Sun (1937) poems