High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "To Bowles" was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published in the 26 December 1794 Morning Chronicle as part of the Sonnets on Eminent Characters series. William Lisle Bowles`s poetry was introduced to Coleridge in 1789 and Bowles had an immediate impact on Coleridge`s views of poetry. The sonnet celebrates Bowles`s status as a poet. The poem also discusses Bowles`s political beliefs, as these views also help shaped Coleridge`s ideas on government and politics.