Selected Poems of Bernard Barton, the 'Quaker Poet'

by Christopher Stokes

William Hazlitt had concluded in 1815 that a Quaker poet would be 'a literary phenomenon' - how could a marginal sect renowned for their plain dress, sober ways and proscription of pleasures produce imaginative literature? To conceive such a writer would be a paradox. Yet the career of Bernard Barton, a prolific poet of the 1820s and 1830s, presented the Romantic era with just such a phenomenon. Instantly recognisable to his contemporaries as the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785274406
• ISBN13: 9781785274404
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"