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William Lisle Bowles (24 September 1762 - 7 April 1850) was an English poet and critic. He was born at King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, where his father was vicar.
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English poet. His Fourteen Sonnets on Picturesque Spots (1789) had a considerable influence on the young Romantic poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert ...
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William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850), English poet and clergyman, born in King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, and educated at the University of Oxford. He was vicar of Bremhill, Wiltshire, from 1804 to 1850. His Fourteen Sonnets (1789) deeply influenced the Romantic poets Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth. The Spirit of Discovery (1804), The Grave of the Last Saxon (1822), and St John in Patmos (1833) are among Bowles's longer poems.