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EDWARD CAPERN (1819-1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 251 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD See also:CAPERN (1819-1894)  , See also:English poet, was See also:born at See also:Tiverton, See also:Devonshire, on the 21st of See also:January 1819 . From an See also:early See also:age he worked in a See also:lace factory, but owing to failing eyesight he had to abandon this occupation in 1847 and he was in dire See also:distress until he secured an See also:appointment to be " the Rural Postman of See also:Bideford," by which name he is usually known . He occupied his leisure in See also:writing occasional See also:poetry which struck the popular See also:fancy . Collected in a See also:volume and published by subscription in 1856, it received the warm praise of the reviews and many distinguished See also:people . Poems, by See also:Edward See also:Capern, was followed by See also:Ballads and Songs (1858), The Devonshire Melodist (a collection of the author's songs, some of them to his own See also:music) and Wayside Warbles (1865), and resulted in a See also:civil See also:list See also:pension being granted him by See also:Lord See also:Palmerston . He died on the 5th of See also:June 1894 .

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