Fourteen Sonnets (Revolution & Romanticism S., 1789-1834) - Hardcover

Coleridge was still a schoolboy when Fourteen sonnets was published. The book had an instant effect upon him, and in Biographia literaria he describes how he made forty copies to give to his friends. It was poetry in a style 'so tender, and yet so manly, so natural and real, and yet so dignified, and harmonious'. In his introduction to this facsimile reprint Jonathan Wordsworth examines sonnets by Bowles's mentor, Thomas Warton, by Bowles himself, and finally by Coleridge, to show the changes in sensibility that were taking place at the beginning of the Romantic period.