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    The Sonnets: "Waked by the breeze, and, as they mourn, expire!"
    The Sonnets: "Waked by the breeze, and, as they mourn, expire!"
    The Sonnets: "Waked by the breeze, and, as they mourn, expire!"
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    The Sonnets: "Waked by the breeze, and, as they mourn, expire!"

    By William Lisle Bowles

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    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 began his career in service to the Church of England.

    His years of service perhaps diminished both his stature as a poet and certainly the way he was viewed. For much of his career Bowles was seen as rather soft when set against his contemporaries but in the end his ability as a poet was enshrined, after a long and ferocious attack against him, by the principles he so eloquently wrote about and adhered too.

    In personality and nature Bowles was said to be an amiable, absent-minded, but rather eccentric man. His poems speak warmly of a refinement of feeling, tenderness, and pensive thought, but are lacking in power and passion. But that should not diminish their value or appreciation to us.

    Bowles maintained that images drawn from nature are poetically finer than those drawn from art; and that in the highest kinds of poetry the themes or passions handled should be of the general or elemental kind, and not the transient manners of any society.

    As well as his poetry Bowles was also responsible for writing a Life of Bishop Ken (in two volumes, 1830–1831), Coombe Ellen and St. Michael's Mount (1798), The Battle of the Nile (1799), and The Sorrows of Switzerland (1801).

    William Lisle Bowles died on April 7th, 1850 at the age of 87.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPortable Poetry
    Release dateDec 25, 2017
    ISBN9781787373273
    The Sonnets: "Waked by the breeze, and, as they mourn, expire!"

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      The Sonnets - William Lisle Bowles

      The Sonnets by William Lisle Bowles

      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 began his career in service to the Church of England.

      His years of service perhaps diminished both his stature as a poet and certainly the way he was viewed. For much of his career Bowles was seen as rather soft when set against his contemporaries but in the end his ability as a poet was enshrined, after a long and ferocious attack against him, by the principles he so eloquently wrote about and adhered too.

      In personality and nature Bowles was said to be an amiable, absent-minded, but rather eccentric man. His poems speak warmly of a refinement of feeling, tenderness, and pensive thought, but are lacking in power and passion. But that should not diminish their value or appreciation to us.

      Bowles maintained that images drawn from nature are poetically finer than those drawn from art; and that in the highest kinds of poetry the themes or passions handled should be of the general or elemental kind, and not the transient manners of any society.

      As well as his poetry Bowles was also responsible for writing a Life of Bishop Ken (in two volumes, 1830–1831), Coombe Ellen and St. Michael's Mount (1798), The Battle of the Nile (1799), and The Sorrows of Switzerland (1801).

      William Lisle Bowles died on April 7th, 1850 at the age of 87.

      Index of Contents

      Preface

      Introduction to the Edition of 1837

      SONNETS

      At Tynemouth Priory, after a Tempestuous Voyage                       

      Bamborough Castle                                                     

      The River Wainsbeck

      The Tweed Visited                                                     

      On leaving a Village in Scotland                                      

      Evening                                                              

      To the River Itchin

      On Resigning a Scholarship of Trinity College, Oxford, and Retiring to a Country Curacy                                                

      Dover Cliffs                                                         

      On Landing at Ostend                                                 

      The Bells of Ostend                                                  

      The Rhine                                                            

      Influence of Time on Grief                                           

      The Convent                                                          

      The River Cherwell                                                   

      On Entering Switzerland                                              

      Distant View of England from the Sea                                 

      Hope                                                                 

      To a Friend                                                          

      Absence                                                              

      Bereavement                                                          

      Oxford Revisited                                                     

      In Memoriam                                                          

      On the Death of the Rev. William Benwell, M.A.                       

      At Malvern                                                           

      Netley Abbey                                                         

      Associations                                                         

      Music                                                                

      Approach of Summer                                                   

      At Oxford, 1786                                                      

      At Dover, 1786                                                       

      Retrospection                                                        

      On Accidentally Meeting a Lady,

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