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See also:BARTON, See also:BERNARD (1784–1849) , See also:English poet, was See also:born at See also:Carlisle on the 31st of See also:January 1784. His parents were See also:Quakers, and he was commonly known as the Quaker poet. After some experience of business, he became, in 1809, clerk to Messrs See also:Alexander's See also:bank at See also:Woodbridge, See also:Suffolk, and retained this See also:post till his See also:death. His first See also:volume of verse—Metrical Effusions—was published in 1812. It brought him into See also:correspondence with See also:Southey, and shortly afterwards, through the See also:medium of a set of complimentary verses, he made the acquaintance of See also:Hogg. From this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time onwards to 1828 Barton published various volumes of See also:verse. After 1828 hid See also:work appeared but rarely in See also:print, but his See also:Household Verses published in 1845 secured him, on the recommendation of See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Peel, a See also:Civil See also:List See also:pension of £loo a See also:year, f 1200 having already been raised for him by some members of the Society of See also:Friends. Barton is chiefly remembered for his friendship with See also:Charles See also:Lamb, which arose, curiously enough, out of a remonstrance addressed by him to the author of Essays of Elia on the freedom with which the Quakers had been handled in that volume. When Barton contemplated resigning his bank clerkship and supporting himself entirely by literature, Lamb strongly dissuaded him. " Keep to your bank," he wrote, " and the bank will keep you." Barton died at Woodbridge on 19th See also:February 1849. His daughter See also:Lucy married See also:Edward See also:FitzGerald.
See Poems and Letters of Bernard Barton, selected by Lucy Barton, with a See also:biographical See also:notice by Edward FitzGerald (1849).
End of Article: BARTON, BERNARD (1784–1849)
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