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Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850), English poet and clergyman, born in King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, and educated at the University of Oxford. He was vicar of Bremhill, Wiltshire, from 1804 to 1850. His Fourteen Sonnets (1789) deeply influenced the Romantic poets Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth. The Spirit of Discovery (1804), The Grave of the Last Saxon (1822), and St John in Patmos (1833) are among Bowles's longer poems.

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