William Collins and personification (once again).(Essays)(Critical essay)

ANQ | September 22, 2007| | Copyright

William Collins produced a small body of work, and his modern reputation as a poet rests primarily on one slim, twelve-poem volume, the Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects (1746), although his Persian Eclogues (1742) deserves to be valued as a more significant work than has generally been the case. (1) Modern critical analyses of Collins the man, which naturally lead to assessments and interpretations of Collins's poetry, often relate that the initial reception of the Odes sent Collins into despair--and critical assessment of the Odes verifies that he had good ...

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