Miscellaneous Poems

William Lisle Bowles was born on 24th September 1762 at King’s Sutton in Northamptonshire. His great-grandfather, grandfather and his father, William Thomas Bowles, had all been parish priests and inevitably Bowles would join their line. In 1789 Bowles published, a small quarto volume, Fourteen Sonnets, which was received with extraordinary praise, not only by the general public, but by such revered poets as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Wordsworth. After receiving his degree at Oxford, Bowles now