Authority Cited: Collins
Author name and dates: William Collins (1721-1759)
BKG Bio-tweet: Early promise as poet; London friend of SJ; later depression; brief bio in Lives; SJ quotes poem under sod
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Collins cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No additional Collins cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. Per Yale vol. 22, p. 838, a copy of a 1771 The Poetical Works of William Collins. To Which are added Hammond's Elegies inscribed by Boswell to SJ is in the library of Columbia University.]
Odes on several descriptive and allegoric subjects: By William Collins, 1747, London: printed for A. Millar, in the Strand
Author name and dates: William Collins (1721-1759)
BKG Bio-tweet: Early promise as poet; London friend of SJ; later depression; brief bio in Lives; SJ quotes poem under sod
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Collins cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No additional Collins cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. Per Yale vol. 22, p. 838, a copy of a 1771 The Poetical Works of William Collins. To Which are added Hammond's Elegies inscribed by Boswell to SJ is in the library of Columbia University.]
Odes on several descriptive and allegoric subjects: By William Collins, 1747, London: printed for A. Millar, in the Strand
- ODE, Written in the beginning of the Year 1746; sod (Dict.: Here fame shall dress a sweeter sod,/Than fancy's feet have ever trod. The image of the Ode is below. Perhaps this Ode refers to the battle of Fontenoy, as Collins had recently travelled to Flanders to visit an uncle in the Army per the DNB.)
- Collins (no work cited);
