About William Lisle Bowles
This is a list of best William Lisle Bowles poems. He was an english poet and priest. His poems are characterised by refinement of feeling, tenderness, and pensive thought, but are deficient in power and passion. 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.Browse all poems and texts published on William Lisle Bowles
