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William Collins: poems

By Collins , BILL , William;Hutchings

Book information

Publisher
British Heritage Database, Cultural Resources
Year
2003
ISBN
1903807689, 9781903807682
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1507100 bytes)
Edition
Reader-printable ed
Pages
\159
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
English poetry;Electronic books

Description

William Collins's life and literary career were short, sadly affected and prematurely ended by illness. But his works, notably the volume of odes published in 1746 and his elegy on the death of fellow-poet James Thomson, are sufficient to establish him as a major poetic voice in a key period in the development of English poetry. By choosing the ode as his preferred form and by using imagery and personification as his primary vehicles of expression, Collins made one of the most significant contributions to the establishment of lyric poetry as the truest poetry. For this, he has often rightly been seen as a direct influence on such later poets as Keats, but his work deserves to be read and enjoyed for its own sake.

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