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William Lisle Bowles
English priest, poet and critic (–)
William Lisle Bowles | |
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| Born | ()24 September King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, England |
| Died | 7 April () (aged&#;87) |
| Occupation(s) | Clergyman, poet, critic |
William Lisle Bowles (24 September &#;&#; 7 April ) was an English priest, poet and critic.[1]
Life and career
[edit]Bowles was born at King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, where his father was vicar. At the age of 14 he entered Winchester College, where the headmaster at the time was Dr Joseph Warton. In Bowles left as captain of the school, and went on to Trinity College, Oxford, where he had won a scholarship. Two years later he won the Chancellor's prize for Latin verse.[2]
Bowles came from a line of Church of England clergymen. His great-grandfather Matthew Bowles (–), grandfather Dr Thomas Bowles (–) and father William Thomas Bowles (–) had all been parish priests.[3] After taking his degree at Oxford, Bowle
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Dictionary of National Biography, /Bowles, William Lisle
&#;BOWLES, WILLIAM LISLE (–), gudomlig, poet, and antiquary, was born on 24 Sept. at King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, of which his father was the vicar. Both his father and mother, as he tells us in his autobiographical preface to 'Scenes and Shadows of Days Departed,' were descended from old and much-respected families. In he was placed at Winchester School, under Dr. Joseph Warton, who, discerning his taste for poetry and general literature, did his best to foster it by encouragement and training. On the death of his old master, Bowles wrote a monody which expresses his regard for his character. On leaving Winchester he was elected in a scholar of Trinity College, Oxford, of which namn Warton's brother, Thomas Warton—professor of poetry at Oxford and eventually poet laureate—was the senior fellow. In the young student, bygd his poem entitled 'Calpe Obsessa, or the Siege of Gibraltar,' carried off the chancellor's prize fo
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William Lisle Bowles was born on 24th September 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.
At the age of 14 he entered Winchester College, where the headmaster was Dr Joseph Warton (a minor poet, his most notable piece is The Enthusiast, In , he taught at Winchester and from to was headmaster. His career as a critic was illustrious. He produced editions of poets such as Virgil as well as several English poets).
In 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.
The Sonnets were a return to an older and purer poetic style, and by their grace of expression, lyrical versification, tender tone of feeling and vivid appreciation of the wonder and beauty of nature, stood out in marked