Thomas Moore--William Lisle Bowles's friend, fellow minor poet, and longtime Wiltshire neighbor--recorded in a journal for 20 March 1819 that he found the middle-aged vicar "in the bar of the White Ha...
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In the following excerpt, Gilfillan praises Bowles as a pioneer of modern poetry.
William Lisle Bowles—whom we have ventured to call the father of modern poetry, since not only was he first ...
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In the following essay, Casson discusses Bowles's role as both poet and critic in the transition from eighteenth century poetry to Romantic poetry.
In the transition from the poetry of the e...
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In the following essay, Doughty explores Bowles's influence on three young Romantic poets: Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge.
Such verse as Bowles, heart-honoured poet sang, That wakes the ...
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In the following excerpt, Abrams examines a mystery that has puzzled many literary scholars; that is, why such a minor poet as Bowles would inspire such enthusiastic praise from major Romantic poets, ...
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In the following essay, Bamborough traces the development of early Romantic river sonnets and credits Bowles with popularizing the form.
Bowles's place in literary history is secure, if a li...
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In the following essay, Fairbanks disputes the widely-held belief that Bowles's “To the River Itchin” inspired Coleridge's “To the River Otter,” and cites a s...
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In the following essay, Wu discusses Bowles's influence on two early sonnets by William Wordsworth.
At some point after 1828,1 William Wordsworth told Alexander Dyce that he had read William...
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In the following introduction, Wordsworth briefly discusses earlier poets who influenced Bowles and later poets who Bowles, in turn, inspired.
Bowles was the poet of a single moment and a single mo...
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In the following essay, Bauschatz claims that Bowles's influence on Romantic poetry was greater than his reputation suggests.
A. Bowles's Language and Style
William Wordsworth (1770-1...
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William Lisle Bowles
Critical Essay by George Gilfillan
