Bernard Barton (1784-1849), the friend of Charles Lamb, and the Quaker poet, to whose
Poems and Letters
(1849) Edward FitzGerald prefixed a biographical introduction, published
Metrical Effusions
(1812),
Poems by an Amateur
(1817),
Poems
(1820), and several other works. He was for many years a clerk in a bank at Woodbridge, in Suffolk. Byron's advice to him was that of Lamb: "Keep to your bank, and your bank will keep you." Two letters, [