William Collins

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.

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