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Collins, William - 1721–59, English poet. He was one of the great lyricists of the 18th cent. While he was still at Oxford he published Persian Ecologues (1742), which was written when he was 17. Unstable and weak-willed, he never chose a profession and was constantly in debt until he inherited money from an uncle. He won no popularity during his lifetime, and his career was curtailed by


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    The Poems of Gray and Collins » Read Now

    by William Collins, Thomas Gray, Austin Lane Poole. 328 pgs.

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    Drafts & Fragments of Verse » Read Now

    by William Collins, J. S. Cunningham. 49 pgs.

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