"Poetic trifles from solitary rambles whilst chewing the cud of sweet and bitter fancy..now written from memory, confined to fourteen lines, this seemed best adapted to the unity of sentiment, the verse flowed in unpremeditated harmony as my ear directed but are far from being mere elegiac couplets."
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Preface to Poetical Works, ed. George Gilfillan, vol. 1 (Edinburgh: Ballantyne & Co, 1855)
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William Lisle Bowles
William Lisle Bowles (September 24, 1762 – April 7, 1850) was an English poet and critic.
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