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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| Translation Of A Latin Poem | 31 July 2013 |
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| V. To the River Tweed | 31 July 2013 |
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| VI. Evening, as slow thy placid shades descend.. | 31 July 2013 |
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| VII. At a Village in Scotland... | 31 July 2013 |
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| VIII. To the River Itchin, near Winton | 31 July 2013 |
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| Wardour Castle | 31 July 2013 |
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| Water-Party On The Beaulieu River, In The New Forest | 31 July 2013 |
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| Winter Evening At Home | 31 July 2013 |
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| Woodspring Abbey | 31 July 2013 |
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| Written at a Convent | 29 November 2013 |
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