Project Gutenberg 2010-04-26 Public domain in the USA. 96 Bowles, William Lisle 1762 1850 Gilfillan, George 1813 1878 The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 2 Reading ease score: 72.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by richyfourtytwo, Carla Foust, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 2" by William Lisle Bowles is a collection of poetry written in the early to mid-19th century. This volume provides not only the poems themselves but also a memoir and critical essays discussing Bowles' impact on modern poetry. The content reflects on themes of nature, melancholy, and human experiences intertwined with spiritual and moral contemplations. At the start of this volume, the author sets the stage by discussing the historical context of poetry from the past to Bowles' present, emphasizing the stark differences between the poetic styles of the 18th and 19th centuries. The opening portion reveals the author's contemplative nature as he muses over life's fleeting moments, the passage of time, and the poetic significance of natural beauty. He reminisces about his childhood while examining the remnants of history, like bones in a cave, prompting meditations on mortality and existence. There is a palpable yearning for the past and an analysis of contemporary society's moral decay as compared to the past's values, setting a reflective tone that permeates Bowles' poetic endeavors. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en English poetry PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Poetry 886913 886914 2024-10-13T14:20:33.297942 2023-09-14T07:18:14.489025 text/html text/html 914548 2021-01-25T17:41:04 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 246527 2021-01-25T17:41:04 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 348688 2024-10-13T14:21:11.009749 application/epub+zip 357434 2024-10-13T14:20:45.555882 application/epub+zip 330135 2024-10-13T14:20:39.864900 application/epub+zip 815880 2024-10-13T14:21:21.071697 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1309691 2024-10-13T14:21:03.011794 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1273161 2022-09-14T16:35:56.346731 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 569972 569872 2024-10-13T14:20:27.771958 2023-09-14T07:18:09.367012 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 569839 2010-04-26T14:39:00 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 213928 2010-04-26T14:39:18 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 569858 2010-04-26T14:39:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 213867 2010-04-26T14:39:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21787 2024-10-13T14:21:21.260685 application/rdf+xml 20382 2024-10-13T14:20:40.654905 image/jpeg 4563 2024-10-13T14:20:40.265891 image/jpeg 327721 2024-10-13T14:20:33.355955 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia