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Edward Fitzgerald And Bernard Barton: An Unsparing Friendship, Jeffrey P. Martin
Edward Fitzgerald And Bernard Barton: An Unsparing Friendship, Jeffrey P. Martin
The Courier
This article details the correspodence between the "Quaker poet" Bernard Barton and famous literary figures of his era, especially his friend and fellow writer Edward FitzGerald. The source of the article is the Alfred McKinley Terhune Collection, found in Syracuse University's Special Collections. Barton's letters, which are often lively and full of fresh opinion, are (thankfully) still valued today, both for the subjects they deal with and for the people they address. As one critic has stated, "Barton never considered his own letters as literary productions. Rather he felt that his poetry was his sole claim to literary fame." It …