Author: BOWLES (Rev. William Lisle)]:
Title: Sonnets and Other Poems...Eighth Edition. To which is added, Hope, An Allegorical Sketch on Recovering Slowly from Sickness.
Description: [Bath], Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Dvis..., and J. Mawman..., 1802. Small 8vo, 157 x 93 mms., pp. [v] vi - xi [xii blank], [5] 6 - 180, engraved frontispiece, 3 other engraved plates at pages 70, [87], and [97], contemporary quarter red roan, marbled boards, vellum tips on corner; some water-staining of text. Bowles (1762 - 1850) published a number of poems with the word "sonnet" in the title, the first being Fourteen Sonnets Written Chiefly on Picturesque Spots during a Journey, in 1789; it was his first book, and only one hundred copies were published. The poem "Hope" appears to have been added in the sixth edition of 1798. The Analytical Review noticed the book in March, 1k789: "The author of these Sonnets evidently endeavoured to imitate Mrs. Charlotte Smith's little elegant compositions; they are certainly very inferior, yet their simple unaffected style gives them some claim to praise."

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