biography
| name: |
Bowles, William Lisle
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pronunciation:
[bohlz]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1762–1850)
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| biography:
| Clergyman and poet, born in King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, C England, UK. He studied at Oxford, became vicar of Bremhill in Yorkshire, and later was chaplain to the prince regent (1818). In his poetry he was a forerunner of the Romantic movement in English poetry. His Fourteen Sonnets, Written Chiefly on Picturesque Spots During a Journey (1789), published anonymously, was widely admired. |
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