William Lisle Bowles

Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• ABBA THULE'S LAMENT FOR HIS SON PRINCE LE BOO. ()
• ABSENCE. ()
• ABSENCE. OCTOBER 26, 1791. ()
• AGE. ()
• APPROACH OF SUMMER. ()
• ART AND NATURE. THE BRIDGE BETWEEN CLIFTON AND LEIGH WOODS. ()
• ASSOCIATIONS. ()
• AT DOVER, 1786. ()
• AT MALVERN. ()
• AT OXFORD, 1786. ()
• AT TYNEMOUTH PRIORY, AFTER A TEMPESTUOUS VOYAGE. ()
• AVENUE IN SAVERNAKE FOREST. ()
• BAMBOROUGH CASTLE. ()
• BATTLE OF CORRUNA. ()
• THE BATTLE OF THE NILE. ()
• THE BELLS, OSTEND. ()
• BEREAVEMENT. ()
• CADLAND, SOUTHAMPTON RIVER. ()
• A CENOTAPH, TO THE MEMORY OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ISAAC, WHO DIED AT CAPE ST NICHOLA MOLE, 1797. ()
• THE CONVENT. ()
• COOMBE-ELLEN. ()
• DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOKE, OF “THE BELLEROPHON,” KILLED IN THE SAME BATTLE. ()
• DIRGE OF NELSON. ()
• DISTANT VIEW OF ENGLAND FROM THE SEA. ()
• DOVER CLIFFS. ()
• THE DYING SLAVE. ()
• ELEGIAC STANZAS. WRITTEN DURING SICKNESS AT BATH. ()
• ELEGY WRITTEN AT THE HOTWELLS, BRISTOL, JULY, 1789. ()
• EPITAPH ON H. WALMSLEY, ESQ., IN ALVERSTOKE CHURCH, HANTS. ()
• EVENING. ()
• EXHIBITION, 1807. ()
• FAIRY SKETCH. SCENE — NETLEY ABBEY. ()
• A GARDEN-SEAT AT HOME. ()
• THE GRAVE OF HOWARD. ()
• GREENWICH HOSPITAL. ()
• THE HARP OF HOEL. ()
• THE HARP, AND DESPAIR, OF COWPER. ()
• HOPE, AN ALLEGORICAL SKETCH. ()
• HOPE. ()
• HOUR-GLASS AND BIBLE. ()
• HYMN TO WODEN. ()
• IN HORTO REV. J. STILL, APUD KNOYLE, VILLAM AMŒNISSIMAM. ()
• IN MEMORIAM. ()
• INFLUENCE OF TIME ON GRIEF. ()
• INSCRIPTION. ()
• LACOCK NUNNERY. JUNE 24, 1837. ()
• THE LAST SONG OF CAMOENS. ()
• MILTON. ON THE BUSTS OF MILTON, IN YOUTH AND AGE, AT STOURHEAD. ()
• THE MISSIONARY. ()
• MONODY ON HENRY HEADLEY. ()
• MONODY ON THE DEATH OF DR WARTON. ()
• MONODY, WRITTEN AT MATLOCK. ()
• MUSIC. ()
• MUSIC. ()
• NETLEY ABBEY. ()
• ON A BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE. ()
• ON A BEAUTIFUL SPRING, FORMING A COLD BATH, AT COOMBE, NEAR DONHEAD, BELONGING TO MY BROTHER, CHAS. BOWLES, ESQ. ()
• ON A LANDSCAPE BY RUBENS. ()
• ON ACCIDENTALLY MEETING A LADY NOW NO MORE. WRITTEN MANY YEARS AFTER THE FOREGOING SONNETS. ()
• ON AN UNFORTUNATE AND BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. WRITTEN DECEMBER 1783. ()
• ON ENTERING SWITZERLAND. ()
• ON HEARING “THE MESSIAH” PERFORMED IN GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL, SEPT. 18, 1835. ()
• ON LANDING AT OSTEND. ()
• ON LEAVING A PLACE OF RESIDENCE. ()
• ON LEAVING A VILLAGE IN SCOTLAND. ()
• ON LEAVING WINCHESTER SCHOOL. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1782. ()
• ON MR HOWARD'S ACCOUNT OF LAZARETTOS. ()
• ON RESIGNING A SCHOLARSHIP OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND RETIRING TO A COUNTRY CURACY. ()
• ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. WILLIAM BENWELL, M.A. ()
• ON WILLIAM SOMMERS OF BREMHILL. ()
• OXFORD REVISITED. ()
• THE PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY. INSCRIBED TO THE DUKE OF LEEDS. ()
• PICTURE OF A YOUNG LADY. ()
• PICTURE OF AN OLD MAN. ()
• PICTURES FROM THEOCRITUS. ()
• POLE-VELLUM, CORNWALL. A PICTURESQUE COTTAGE AND GROUNDS BELONGING TO J. LEMON, ESQ. ()
• RETROSPECTION. ()
• THE RHINE. ()
• THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE. ()
• THE RIVER CHERWELL. ()
• THE RIVER WAINSBECK. ()
• A RUSTIC SEAT NEAR THE SEA. ()
• SHAKSPEARE. ()
• SKETCH FROM BOWDEN HILL AFTER SICKNESS. ()
• SKETCHES IN THE EXHIBITION, 1805. ()
• SONG OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN. ()
• SOUTHAMPTON CASTLE. INSCRIBED TO THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE. ()
• SOUTHAMPTON WATER. ()
• THE SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY BY SEA: A DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL POEM. ()
• THE SPIRIT OF NAVIGATION. ()
• ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT. INSCRIBED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD SOMERS. ()
• STANZAS FOR MUSIC. ()
• SUMMER EVENING AT HOME. ()
• SUN-DIAL, IN THE CHURCHYARD OF BREMHILL. ()
• THE SYLPH OF SUMMER. ()
• TO A FRIEND. ()
• TO SIR WALTER SCOTT. ON ACCIDENTLY MEETING AND PARTING WITH SIR WALTER SCOTT, WHOM I HAD NOT SEEN FOR MANY YEARS, IN THE STREETS OF LONDON, MAY 1828. ()
• TO THE RIVER ITCHIN. ()
• [TRANSLATION] OF A LATIN POEM BY THE REV. NEWTON OGLE, DEAN OF MANCHESTER. ()
• THE TWEED VISITED. ()
• THE VISIONARY BOY. ()
• WARDOUR CASTLE. ()
• WATER-PARTY ON BEAULIEU RIVER, IN THE NEW FOREST. ()
• THE WINDS. ()
• WINTER EVENING AT HOME. ()
• WOODSPRING ABBEY, 1836. ()

• Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan. Edinburgh: James Nichol, 9 North Bank Street..., 1855.
  • AT TYNEMOUTH PRIORY, AFTER A TEMPESTUOUS VOYAGE.
  • BAMBOROUGH CASTLE.
  • THE RIVER WAINSBECK.
  • THE TWEED VISITED.
  • ON LEAVING A VILLAGE IN SCOTLAND.
  • EVENING.
  • TO THE RIVER ITCHIN.
  • ON RESIGNING A SCHOLARSHIP OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND RETIRING TO A COUNTRY CURACY.
  • DOVER CLIFFS.
  • ON LANDING AT OSTEND.
  • THE BELLS, OSTEND.
  • THE RHINE.
  • INFLUENCE OF TIME ON GRIEF.
  • THE CONVENT.
  • THE RIVER CHERWELL.
  • ON ENTERING SWITZERLAND.
  • DISTANT VIEW OF ENGLAND FROM THE SEA.
  • HOPE.
  • TO A FRIEND.
  • ABSENCE.
  • BEREAVEMENT.
  • OXFORD REVISITED.
  • IN MEMORIAM.
  • ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. WILLIAM BENWELL, M.A.
  • AT MALVERN.
  • NETLEY ABBEY.
  • ASSOCIATIONS.
  • MUSIC.
  • APPROACH OF SUMMER.
  • AT OXFORD, 1786.
  • AT DOVER, 1786.
  • RETROSPECTION.
  • ON ACCIDENTALLY MEETING A LADY NOW NO MORE. WRITTEN MANY YEARS AFTER THE FOREGOING SONNETS.
  • ON HEARING “THE MESSIAH” PERFORMED IN GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL, SEPT. 18, 1835.
  • WOODSPRING ABBEY, 1836.
  • LACOCK NUNNERY. JUNE 24, 1837.
  • ON A BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE.
  • ART AND NATURE. THE BRIDGE BETWEEN CLIFTON AND LEIGH WOODS.
  • PICTURE OF AN OLD MAN.
  • PICTURE OF A YOUNG LADY.
  • HOUR-GLASS AND BIBLE.
  • MILTON. ON THE BUSTS OF MILTON, IN YOUTH AND AGE, AT STOURHEAD.
  • TO SIR WALTER SCOTT. ON ACCIDENTLY MEETING AND PARTING WITH SIR WALTER SCOTT, WHOM I HAD NOT SEEN FOR MANY YEARS, IN THE STREETS OF LONDON, MAY 1828.
  • ELEGY WRITTEN AT THE HOTWELLS, BRISTOL, JULY, 1789.
  • MONODY ON HENRY HEADLEY.
  • ON MR HOWARD'S ACCOUNT OF LAZARETTOS.
  • THE GRAVE OF HOWARD.
  • SHAKSPEARE.
  • ABBA THULE'S LAMENT FOR HIS SON PRINCE LE BOO.
  • SOUTHAMPTON WATER.
  • THE PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY. INSCRIBED TO THE DUKE OF LEEDS.
  • THE DYING SLAVE.
  • SONG OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN.
  • MONODY, WRITTEN AT MATLOCK.
  • THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE.
  • ON LEAVING A PLACE OF RESIDENCE.
  • ELEGIAC STANZAS. WRITTEN DURING SICKNESS AT BATH.
  • ON LEAVING WINCHESTER SCHOOL. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1782.
  • HOPE, AN ALLEGORICAL SKETCH.
  • THE BATTLE OF THE NILE.
  • A GARDEN-SEAT AT HOME.
  • IN HORTO REV. J. STILL, APUD KNOYLE, VILLAM AMŒNISSIMAM.
  • GREENWICH HOSPITAL.
  • A RUSTIC SEAT NEAR THE SEA.
  • WARDOUR CASTLE.
  • POLE-VELLUM, CORNWALL. A PICTURESQUE COTTAGE AND GROUNDS BELONGING TO J. LEMON, ESQ.
  • ON A BEAUTIFUL SPRING, FORMING A COLD BATH, AT COOMBE, NEAR DONHEAD, BELONGING TO MY BROTHER, CHAS. BOWLES, ESQ.
  • A CENOTAPH, TO THE MEMORY OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ISAAC, WHO DIED AT CAPE ST NICHOLA MOLE, 1797.
  • [TRANSLATION] OF A LATIN POEM BY THE REV. NEWTON OGLE, DEAN OF MANCHESTER.
  • ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT. INSCRIBED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD SOMERS.
  • ON AN UNFORTUNATE AND BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. WRITTEN DECEMBER 1783.
  • HYMN TO WODEN.
  • COOMBE-ELLEN.
  • SUMMER EVENING AT HOME.
  • WINTER EVENING AT HOME.
  • THE SPIRIT OF NAVIGATION.
  • WATER-PARTY ON BEAULIEU RIVER, IN THE NEW FOREST.
  • MONODY ON THE DEATH OF DR WARTON.
  • EPITAPH ON H. WALMSLEY, ESQ., IN ALVERSTOKE CHURCH, HANTS.
  • AGE.
  • ON A LANDSCAPE BY RUBENS.
  • THE HARP, AND DESPAIR, OF COWPER.
  • STANZAS FOR MUSIC.
  • MUSIC.
  • ABSENCE. OCTOBER 26, 1791.
  • FAIRY SKETCH. SCENE — NETLEY ABBEY.
  • INSCRIPTION.
  • PICTURES FROM THEOCRITUS.
  • SKETCHES IN THE EXHIBITION, 1805.
  • EXHIBITION, 1807.
  • SOUTHAMPTON CASTLE. INSCRIBED TO THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE.
  • THE WINDS.
  • ON WILLIAM SOMMERS OF BREMHILL.
  • THE VISIONARY BOY.
  • CADLAND, SOUTHAMPTON RIVER.
  • THE LAST SONG OF CAMOENS.
  • THE SYLPH OF SUMMER.
  • THE HARP OF HOEL.
  • AVENUE IN SAVERNAKE FOREST.
  • DIRGE OF NELSON.
  • DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOKE, OF “THE BELLEROPHON,” KILLED IN THE SAME BATTLE.
  • BATTLE OF CORRUNA.
  • SKETCH FROM BOWDEN HILL AFTER SICKNESS.
  • SUN-DIAL, IN THE CHURCHYARD OF BREMHILL.
  • THE SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY BY SEA: A DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL POEM.
  • THE MISSIONARY.

Source editions

• Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan. Edinburgh: James Nichol, 9 North Bank Street..., 1855.

Bibliography

ODNB 3073

Editions

• Bowles, W. L. Fourteen Sonnets... Donald H. Reiman, ed. New York: Garland, 1978. Print.
• Bowles, W. L. Hope, an Allegorical Sketch.... Donald H. Reiman, ed. New York: Garland, 1978. Print.
• Bowles, W. L. Poems and The Missionary. Donald H. Reiman, ed. New York: Garland, 1978. Print.
• Bowles, W. L. Sonnets, and other poems; and The spirit of discovery. Donald H. Reiman, ed. New York: Garland, 1978. Print.

Reference works

• Day, Gary, and Jack Lynch, gen. eds. The Encyclopedia of British Literature 1660-1789. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2015. 3 Vols. Vol. I, 153-154. Print.
• Radcliffe, David H., ed. Rev. William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850). Spenser and the Tradition: ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830. Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech, 2006. Web. 14 Oct. 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20170908014740/http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/AuthorRecord.php?recordid=33302.

Criticism

• Bauschatz, Paul. Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Bowles.   Style 27(1) (Spring 1993): 17. Print.
• Fayen, George S., Jr. The Pencil and the Harp of William Lisle Bowles. Modern Language Quarterly (1960): 301-314. Print.
• Lo, Yimon. 'A sympathy in streams': the river sonnets of Bowles, Coleridge, and Wordsworth. Coleridge Bulletin 52 (2018): 51–57. Print.
• Pedley, Colin.  Two more uncollected poems by William Lisle Bowles. Notes and Queries (1992): 165-167. Print.
• Pedley, Colin. Dating Bowles's sonnets. Notes and Queries (1990): 403. Print.
• Pedley, Colin. Two uncollected poems by William Lisle Bowles. Notes and Queries (1990): 403-405. Print.
• Ruddick, Bill. ‘Genius of the sacred fountain of tears’: a bicentenary tribute to the sonnets of William Lisle Bowles. Charles Lamb Bulletin (1990): 276-284. Print.