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Article: Wordsworth and Collins.(William Collins and William Wordsworth)(Critical essay)
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- January 1, 2009
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William Collins (1721-59), a friend of James Thomson, appealed to Romantic poets for three distinct reasons. First, like Christopher Smart and Thomas Chatterton, he was beguilingly contextualized in a myth of madness that read him as a victim of his own sensibility and genius. In the Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1781), Samuel Johnson discussed Collins's supposed madness, and Byron included him in a list of unfortunate authors, mentioning the "frenzy of Collins" (6: 85). Second, as the author of Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects (1746) and Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson (1749), Collins (especially as the author of the "Ode on the Poetical ...
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