William Collins

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William Collins

1721-1759 GB, Chichester

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. An intriguing addition, now lost, is the "Ode on the Music of the Grecian Theatre" that he described and proposed sending to the musician William Hayes (3) in 1750. Hayes had just set "The Passions" by Collins to music as an oratorio that was received with some acclaim.

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