Jonathan Wordsworth (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: An introduction to Fourteen Sonnets 1789, by William Lisle Bowles, Woodstock Books, 1991.
[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 mood. He was a sort of John the Baptist to Coleridge—except that Coleridge started by worshipping him. Wordsworth, late in his life, recalled buying Fourteen sonnets (at Christmas 1789), and annoying his...
Source: Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2002 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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