Selected Poems of Bernard Barton, the 'Quaker Poet'

Christopher Stokes

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A diverse variety of Bernard Barton’s poetry, an important figure of the Romantic era, supplemented by letters, reviews and other contextual material

The first ever modern edition of Bernard Barton’s selected verse, recovering an important and prolific figure from the Romantic era. Instantly recognisable to his contemporaries as ‘the Quaker poet’, Barton wrote nature and landscape poetry in a distinctive vein, as well as spanning strikingly diverse themes that engaged politics, society and religion. This selection encompasses all these tones and genres, providing freshly edited texts from the first printed sources, supplemented by textual apparatus, critical commentary and informative footnotes. The book also includes a selection of contextual material, including prefaces and reviews, as well as a selection of Barton’s lively epistolary correspondence. A substantial scholarly essay serves as the introduction, describing Barton’s life and career, as well as analysing his uniquely Quaker poetic identity in its full literary and historical context.

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; A Note on Quakerism; 1812–19: Anonymous Beginnings; 1820–25: Emergence of the ‘Quaker Poet’; 1826–29: Literary Fame; 1830–49: Late Barton; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Titles and First Lines.

Sujets

• Idioma inglés
• Idioma galés
• Reino Unido
• Ireland
• Literary criticism
• United Kingdom
• Irish
• English
• Poetry
• Stephen Ireland
• Great Britain
• European
• Welsh
• Scottish
• Musique irlandaise
• Anglais
• Royaume-Uni

Informations

• Publié par: Anthem Press
• Date de parution: 28 septembre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781785274428
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Selected Poems of Bernard Barton, the ‘Quaker Poet’
Selected Poems of Bernard Barton, the ‘Quaker Poet’
Edited by
Christopher Stokes
Anthem Press
An imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company
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This edition first published in UK and USA 2020
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© 2020 Christopher Stokes editorial matter and selection
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2020940390
ISBN-13: 978-1-78527-440-4 (Hbk)
ISBN-10: 1-78527-440-6 (Hbk)
This title is also available as an e-book.
CONTENTS
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
A Note on Quakerism
1812–19: Anonymous Beginnings
My Lucy
Stanzas on the Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Ode to an Æolian Harp
A Guess at the Contents of Lalla Rookh
Stanzas (“The Heaven was Cloudless”)
The Convict’s Appeal [Stanzas 1–15]
On Silent Worship
Playford. A Descriptive Fragment.—1817
Written in a Lady’s Album
Stanzas, Addressed to Some Friends Going to the Sea-Side
Sonnet to the Deben [‘Thou hast thrown aside thy summer loveliness’]
Stanzas, to Helen M— M—
Haunts of Childhood
Sonnets to Charlotte M— [1818 and 1828]
Drab Bonnets
1820–25: Emergence of the ‘Quaker Poet’
The Ivy, Addressed to a Young Friend
The Valley of Fern
Verses, Supposed to be Written in a Burial-Ground Belonging to the Society of Friends
Leiston Abbey
Stanzas, Addressed to Percy Bysshe Shelley
To Lydia
Winter
A Dream
A Day in Autumn [Invocation]
A Day in Autumn [The River Orwell]
The Quaker Poet. Verses on Seeing Myself So Designated
To L.E.L.
Napoleon [Stanzas 28–90]
The Contrast
To a Robin
Verses on the Death of Bloomfield, the Suffolk Poet
Bishop Hubert
Pity for Poor Little Sweeps
A Memorial of John Woolman; a Minister of the Gospel, Among the Quakers
A Memorial of James Nayler, the Reproach and Glory of Quakerism
A Memorial of Mary Dyer, One of the Early Worthies and Martyrs in the Society of Quakers
Verses on the Approach of Spring, Addressed to my Little Play-Fellow
Bealings House
To a Butterfly. Translated from the French
On a Portrait of Beatrice Cenci
On the Death of Samuel Alexander, of Needham-Market
Bow Hill
1826–29: Literary Fame
A Grandsire’s Tale
Stanzas, Composed During a Tempest
A Prophet’s Old Age
Ruth’s Love
The Vanity of Human Knowledge
A Soliloquy
A Reflection
Tears
Walking in the Light
Which Things Are a Shadow
Prefatory Sonnet [to A Widow’s Tale, and Other Poems ]
Caractacus
Sonnet; to a Grandmother
Stanzas, Written for a Blank Leaf in Sewell’s History of the Quakers
The Vale of Tears
Concluding Verses, to a Child Seven Years Old
Sonnet to William and Mary Howitt
Sonnet to the Same
The Daughter of Herodias
Godiva
On a Portrait by Spagnoletto
Fireside Quatrains, to Charles Lamb
England’s Oak
Summer Musings
Epistle to the Editor of Friendship’s Offering
1830–49: Late Barton
The Coronation of Ines de Castro
To the White Jasmine
To Wm. Kirby, Rector of Barham, Suffolk
The Sea-Shell
A Negro Mother’s Cradle-Song
The Bible [‘Lamp of our feet!’]
A Clerico-Politico Portrait
First Scripture Lessons
On a Drawing of the Cottage at Aldborough, Where Crabbe Lived in Boyhood
An Epistle to a Phonographic Friend; Or a Few Words on Phonography
To the B.B Schooner, on Seeing Her Sail Down the Deben for Liverpool
Sonnet, to a Friend Never Yet Seen, But Corresponded with for Above Twenty Years
A Postscript to ‘To the Dead in Christ’
The Yellow-Hammer; A Song, by a Suffolk Villager
To E.F. [Elizabeth Fry], On Her Reappearance Among Her Friends at the Yearly Meeting, 1845
Sonnet, to Job’s Three Friends
Sonnets, Written at Burstal
Poetical Illustrations from Natural History of the Holy Land
A Prefatory Appeal for Poetry and Poets
Contextual Material
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Titles and First Lines
Figures
1. Jusepe de Ribera [Lo Spagnoletto], Man, Wine Bottle and Tambourine (1631). Oil on canvas. Gösta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation, Mänttä, Finland. Photographer: Yehia Eweis. Reproduced with the kind permission of the Gösta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation
2. Philip Doddridge as a child being taught the Old and New Testaments by his mother using ceramic tiles around the fireplace . Engraving by G. Presbury after J. Franklin. Wellcome Collection. Reproduced under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY 4.0). https://wellcomecollection.org/works/a62hdt7g. This image was used as the accompanying illustration to ‘First Scripture Lessons’ in Fisher’s Juvenile Scrap-Book (1839)
3. The Elk , engraved by T.[homas?] Dixon. Plate from Lucy Barton, Natural History of the Holy Land (1856). Reproduced from editor’s own copy, with the kind assistance of the University of Exeter’s Digital Humanities Lab. Photographer: Emma Sherriff
4. The Heron , engraved by T.[homas?] Dixon. Plate from Lucy Barton, Natural History of the Holy Land (1856). Reproduced from editor’s own copy, with the kind assistance of the University of Exeter’s Digital Humanities Lab. Photographer: Emma Sherriff
5. Butterflies . Plate from Lucy Barton, Natural History of the Holy Land (1856). Reproduced from editor’s own copy, with the kind assistance of the University of Exeter’s Digital Humanities Lab. Photographer: Emma Sherriff
6. The Serpent of the Isle of Celebes , engraved by T.[homas?] Dixon. Plate from Lucy Barton, Natural History of the Holy Land (1856). Reproduced from editor’s own copy, with the kind assistance of the University of Exeter’s Digital Humanities Lab. Photographer: Emma Sherriff
7. Barbary Ape & Ouran Outang , engraved by T.[homas?] Dixon. Plate from Lucy Barton, Natural History of the Holy Land (1856). Reproduced from editor’s own copy, with the kind assistance of the University of Exeter’s Digital Humanities Lab. Photographer: Emma Sherriff
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Since first reading Charles Lamb’s account of silent prayer in ‘Imperfect Sympathies’ and finding my curiosity so piqued as to go in search of Quaker poets of the Romantic era, this project has grown to absorb considerable amounts of (mostly pleasurable!) time and attention. There are inevitably many acknowledgements.
As it has developed, I have always appreciated the support and ideas of my immediate colleagues at both campuses of the University of Exeter: I owe a general debt to the Penryn Humanities department, but would offer particular thanks (in no particular order) to Jim Kelly, Tim Cooper, Jason Hall, Kate Hext, John Plunkett, Andrew Rudd and Joseph Crawford. For invaluable aid in the archival process, I’d like to thank Elly Babbedge; for research support, Annie Sheen; and for broader help with the project, Ivy Wrogg. Jeremy Greenwood and Melanie Bill both aided a research visit to Woodbridge during which I got to walk in Barton’s footsteps and visit many places mentioned in these poems. My anonymous reviewers, across two stages of manuscript preparation, gave helpful and incisive feedback, and of course I am also grateful to all at Anthem Press.
Preparing this volume has involved the help of many archives and institutions, and I’d like to thank the staff at the Cadbury Research Library at the University of Birmingham; the British Library; Special Collections at the University of Delaware; the Devon and Exeter Institution, the libraries and Digital Humanities Lab of the University of Exeter; the Gainsborough’s House Museum; Special Collections at the University of Leeds; Senate House Library at the University of London; the John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester; the Gösta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation in Mänttä, Finland; the New York Public Library and the curators of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and his Circle; the Library of the Society of Friends in London; and the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College.
All substantial reproduction of text within this volume is of previously published material where the relevant term of copyright has expired. All archival material has been cited with the permission of the holding archive.

Map 1. Map of Barton’s Suffolk.
ABBREVIATIONS Lamb The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb 1821–42 , ed. E.V. Lucas (London: Methuen, 1912) LCBB The Literary Correspondence of Bernard Barton , ed. James E. Barcus (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1966) SPL Selections from the Poems and Letters of Bernard Barton , ed. Lucy Barton (London: Hall, Virtue, 1849)
INTRODUCTION
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