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Title: The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2

Author: William Lisle Bowles

Annotator: George Gilfillan

Release Date: April 26, 2010 [EBook #32145]

Language: English

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THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES,

CANON OF ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, AND RECTOR OF BREMHILL.

With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and
Explanatory Notes,

BY THE

REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN.

VOL. II.

EDINBURGH:
JAMES NICHOL, 9 NORTH BANK STREET.
LONDON: JAMES NISBET AND CO.
DUBLIN: W. ROBERTSON.
M.DCCC.LV.

MEMOIR AND CRITICISM
ON THE
WORKS OF THE REV. W. L. BOWLES.

The poetry of each age may be considered as vitally connected with, and
as vividly reflective of, its character and progress, as either its
politics or its religion. You see the nature of the soil of a garden in
its tulips and roses, as much as in its pot-herbs and its towering
trees. We purpose, accordingly, to compare briefly the poetry of the
past and of the present centuries, as indices of some of the points of
contrast between the two, and to show also how, and through what causes,
the one grew into the other. This will be a fitting introduction to a
consideration of the life and writings of the first of the poets of this
century included in our series, the more as he was in a measure the
father of modern poetry.

It is impossible to take up a volume of the poetry of the eighteenth
century, such as, for instance, Churchi