better poetry than one would expect from a postman, and if it has a little breathlessness, then it shows how truly the postman who wrote it has worked his own personality into the lines." He added that Capern was known as the "Devonshire Burns". The Burton at Bideford Museum in Bideford has a permanent exhibition about Capern. References Attribution: External links 1819 births 1894 deaths English male poets 19th-century English poets 19th-century English male writers Writers from Tiverton, Devon