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| Back | 1721_59 he completed Persian eclogue 1742 when he was 17 lived very unstable and always in debt Ode on the Popular Superstitious of the Highlands 1788 have an honourable place in English poetry 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 Alexander Pope's generation and towards the Romantic era which would soon follow. William Collins Edit Persian Eclogues (1742); these were revised as Oriental Eclogues in 1759. Verses humbly address'd to Sir Thomas Hanmer on his edition of Shakespeare's works (1743); republished in a revised edition in 1744 , in which "A Song from Shakespeare's Cymbeline" was included. Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegorical Subjects (1746) Ode on the Death of Thomson (1749) Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands (written 1750, unpublished until later editions) |
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