Selected Poems of Bernard Barton, the 'Quaker Poet'
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Selected Poems of Bernard Barton, the 'Quaker Poet'
By (Author) Christopher Stokes
Anthem Press
Anthem Press
29th September 2020
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literary studies: poetry and poets
Literature: history and criticism
821.7
Physical Properties
Hardback
346
Width 153mm, Height 229mm, Spine 26mm
454g
Description
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.
Reviews
A Quaker poet would be a literary phenomenon, said William Hazlitt in 1815, and in his own day Bernard Barton was exactly that. Christopher Stokess richly annotated edition is a welcome opportunity to rediscover a remarkable and remarkably versatile lost voice of British Romanticism. Thomas Keymer, Chancellor Henry N.R. Jackman University Professor of English, University of Toronto
Author Bio
Dr Christopher Stokes is a senior lecturer in romanticism at the University of Exeter.
