Wednesday, June 02, 2004

English Literature, Other poets of the early Romantic period

Several of the lesser poets of this generation were more popular in their own time. The somewhat insipid Fourteen Sonnets (1789) of William Lisle Bowles were received with enthusiasm by Coleridge and Wordsworth. Thomas Campbell is now chiefly remembered for his patriotic lyrics such as “Ye Mariners of England” and “The Battle of Hohenlinden” (1807) and for the critical preface

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