Bowles, William Lisle, a poet, born in Northamptonshire; his sonnets, by their “linking,” as Professor Saintsbury has it, “of nature's aspect to human feeling,” were much admired by Coleridge, and their appearance is believed to have inaugurated a new era in English poetry, as developed in the Lake School (1762‒1850).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bower, Walter * Bowling, Tom