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Name: William Collins
Birth Date: 1721
Death Date: 1759
Nationality: English
Occupations: poet

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Biography of William Collins
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The English poet William Collins (1721-1759) excelled in the descriptive or allegorical ode. He also wrote classical odes and elegies and lyrics marked by delicate and pensive melody. William Collins was born on Dec. 25, 1721, in Chichester. His father...
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Biography of William Collins
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William Collins had his first poem published when he was seventeen, his first book at twenty, his major volume a few days before turning twenty-five, and seems to have stopped writing poetry altogether by the time he was twenty-eight. For more than two...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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William Collins Information
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William Collins (25 December, 1721 – 12 June, 1759) was an 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...


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Murder charge cut despite man's claim
12/13/2006: 286 words, approx. 1 pages
Prosecutors dropped a murder charge against a man who claimed to have lured drug dealers to his remote western Missouri cabin, killed them and spread their remains across the property.A search in August turned up 35 bone fragments and a tooth at the property near...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Richard Feingold
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In the following essay, Feingold examines some characteristics of Augustan poetry and compares the work of several poets, including Collins.
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Patricia Meyer Spacks
7,640 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Spacks argues for a less-Romantic, rational view of the poetry of William Collins (1721-1759), whose central emotions and preoccupations—namely anxiety and the demonic—have led to his increased reputation among late twentieth-century critics.
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Critical Essay by Patricia Meyer Spacks
7,606 words, approx. 25 pages
In the essay below, Spacks contends that critics are mistaken in classifying Collins as a Romantic poet; rather, she argues, he should be considered a secondrank eighteenth-century poet.
 


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William Collins by Gabriela Mistral

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