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The Invariable Principles Of Poetry: In A Letter Addressed To Thomas Campbell, Esq; Occasioned By Some Critical Observations In His Specimens Of British Poets, Particularly Relating To The Poetical Charcter Of Pope by William Lisle Bowles is a polemical defense of Bowles's own critical principles concerning poetry. In the letter, Bowles argues that images drawn from nature which are beautiful or sublime are more poetical than images drawn from art, and that the loftier passions of human nature are more poetical than artificial manners. He contends that a great descriptive poet must possess acute knowledge of external nature, yet that true poetry also rests on the expression of general, enduring human feelings. Addressing Thomas Campbell, Bowles revisits examples from Pope, Cowper, Thomson, Homer, and Milton, and responds to Campbell’s criticisms and the portrayal of Bowles’s own critique in reviews. The piece defends Bowles’s Life of Pope and insists on judging criticism by its full argument, not by isolated quotations. The letter is a vigorous articulation of Bowles’s theory of poetry, connecting nature, passion, and moral imagination to poetic excellence.
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