NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850 NRA: Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850) Canon of Salisbury Poet Antiquary DNB: Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850), Church of England clergyman and poet LBT ID: WiBowle1850 VIAF ID: 696177 LOC ID: n50042857 | B/BAP: 1762-09-24 DIED: 1850-04-07 |
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
English poet and critic; author of Fourteen Sonnets, elegiac and
descriptive, written during a Tour (1789), editor of the Works
of Alexander Pope, 10 vols (1806), and writer of pamphlets contributing to the
subsequent Pope controversy. | |