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Fourteen Sonnets
Coleridge was still a schoolboy when Fourteen sonnets was published. The book had an instant effect upon him, and in Biographia literaria he describes how he made forty copies to give to his friends. It was poetry in a style 'so tender, and yet so manly, so natural and real, and yet so dignified, and harmonious'. In his introduction to this facsimile reprint Jonathan Wordsworth examines sonnets by Bowles's mentor, Thomas Warton, by Bowles himself, and finally by Coleridge, to show the changes in sensibility that were taking place at the beginning of the Romantic period.
15 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1789
About the author
William Lisle Bowles
202 books3 followersWilliam Lisle Bowles (24 September 1762 – 7 April 1850) was an English priest, poet and critic. Bowles was born at King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, where his father was vicar.
Bowles came from a line of Church of England clergymen. After taking his degree at Oxford, Bowles followed his forebears into the Church of England, and in 1792, after serving as curate in Donhead St Andrew, was appointed vicar of Chicklade in Wiltshire. In 1797 he received the vicarage of Dumbleton in Gloucestershire, and in 1804 became vicar of Bremhill in Wiltshire, where he wrote the poem seen on Maud Heath's statue. In the same year his bishop, John Douglas, collated him to a prebendal stall in Salisbury Cathedral. In 1818 he was made chaplain to the Prince Regent, and in 1828 he was elected residentiary canon of Salisbury.
In 1789 he published, in a very small quarto volume, Fourteen Sonnets, which were received with extraordinary favour, not only by the general public, but by such men as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Wordsworth.
Bowles is perhaps more celebrated as a critic than as a poet.In 1806 he published an edition of Alexander Pope's works with notes and an essay, in which he laid down certain canons as to poetic imagery which, subject to some modification, were later accepted, but which were received at the time with strong opposition by admirers of Pope and his style. The controversy brought into sharp contrast the opposing views of poetry, which may be roughly described as the natural and the artificial.
(from Wikipedia)
Bowles came from a line of Church of England clergymen. After taking his degree at Oxford, Bowles followed his forebears into the Church of England, and in 1792, after serving as curate in Donhead St Andrew, was appointed vicar of Chicklade in Wiltshire. In 1797 he received the vicarage of Dumbleton in Gloucestershire, and in 1804 became vicar of Bremhill in Wiltshire, where he wrote the poem seen on Maud Heath's statue. In the same year his bishop, John Douglas, collated him to a prebendal stall in Salisbury Cathedral. In 1818 he was made chaplain to the Prince Regent, and in 1828 he was elected residentiary canon of Salisbury.
In 1789 he published, in a very small quarto volume, Fourteen Sonnets, which were received with extraordinary favour, not only by the general public, but by such men as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Wordsworth.
Bowles is perhaps more celebrated as a critic than as a poet.In 1806 he published an edition of Alexander Pope's works with notes and an essay, in which he laid down certain canons as to poetic imagery which, subject to some modification, were later accepted, but which were received at the time with strong opposition by admirers of Pope and his style. The controversy brought into sharp contrast the opposing views of poetry, which may be roughly described as the natural and the artificial.
(from Wikipedia)
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