William Collins
December 25, 1721 – June 12, 1759
Countries:
United Kingdom
Place of Birth:
Chichester, Sussex, England
Place of Death:
Chichester, Sussex, England
Categories:
Poetry
English poet, Second in influence only to Thomas Gray, he was an important 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.