William Collins (
1721 -
1759), English poet, was educated at
Winchester and
Oxford, moved to London in the
1740s and spent the last years of his life in
Chichester. Second in influence only to
Thomas Gray, he was an important poet of the middle decades of the
18th century.
- Persian Eclogues (1742)
- Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegorical Subjects (1746)
- Ode on the Death of Thomson (1749)
- Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands (1750)