Bowles was born at Northamptonshire and educated at Trinity College, Oxford, receiving his Batchelor of Arts in 1786 and Master of Arts in 1792. He was ordained deacon in 1788. He served as curate at Wiltshire (1788), rector at Chicklade (1795), Dumbleton (1797) and Bremhill, Wiltshire (1804). He became prebendary (1804) and canon residentiary (1828) at Salisbury Cathedral. Though he mostly led a city life as a clergyman and magistrate, his writings reveal a longing for rural retirement. Though his first work was well received by the early romantic poets, most of his work is no longer read. He is remembered for his long public argument with Byron, known as the "Pope-Bowles controversy", in which Byron, along with others like Thomas Campbell, ardently defended Pope's greatness and true rank among poets.
Poems by this Poet
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| Sonnet July 18th 1787 | 31 July 2013 |
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| Sonnet Languid, And Sad, And Slow, From Day To Day | 31 July 2013 |
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| Sonnet O Poverty Though From Thy Haggard Eye | 31 July 2013 |
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| Southampton Castle | 31 July 2013 |
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| Southampton Water | 31 July 2013 |
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| Sonnet V. To the River Tweed | 31 July 2013 |
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| Sonnet I. Written at Tinemouth, Northumberland, after a Tempestuous Voyage | 31 July 2013 |
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| Sonnet II. Written at Bamborough Castle | 31 July 2013 |
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| Sonnet III. O Thou, whose stern command and precepts pure.. | 31 July 2013 |
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| Song Of The American Indian | 31 July 2013 |
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