Edited sentence: "To Bowles" was first published in the 26 December 1794 Morning Chronicle.Although Coleridge praises Bowles for "soft Strains", Coleridge was to turn to flashy type of poetic model as he developed as a poet.However, the sonnets as a whole were about Coleridge's political belief,.In many of Coleridge's works, he compares Bowles with other poems, such as William Cowper.In particular, Bowles provided Coleridge with the ideas of a universal brotherhood.Most of the Sonnets on Eminent Characters is devoted to those Coleridge considered heroes with Bowles representing poetry.This influence can be traced to when Coleridge was given a copy of Bowles's sonnets in 1789.William Lisle Bowles had an important role in Coleridge's early poetry; he served as a model Coleridge.and Coleridge emphasizes how Bowles influenced Coleridge's political beliefs