Author:William Collins (1721-1759)
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For authors with similar names, see Author:William Collins.
important English poet of the middle decades of the 18th century; his lyrical odes mark a turn away from the Augustan poetry of Alexander Pope's generation and towards the romantic era which would soon follow.
William Collins
Works[edit]
- Ode Occasion'd by the Death of Mr. Thomson (1749)
- Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands (1750)
- Ode to Evening (1746)
- Ode to Peace
- Ode to Pity
- Ode to Simplicity
- Ode Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746 ("How Sleep the Brave")
- Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegorical Subjects (1746)
- Persian Eclogues (1742)
Works about Collins[edit]
- "Collins" in The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1783), by Samuel Johnson, pp.289-296.
- "Collins, William (1)," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
- "Collins, William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "Collins, William (1721-1759)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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