William Collins

(1721-1759)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Collins, William, 1721-1759 NRA: Collins, William (1721-1759) Poet DNB: Collins, William (1721-1759), poet LBT ID: WiColli1759 VIAF ID: 79091605 LOC ID: n50026862	B/BAP: 1721-12-25 DIED: 1759-06-12
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English poet, author of Persian Eclogues (1742), Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegorical Subjects (1746), and Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands (1788).
REFERENCES TO William Collins: Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [13 June 1796] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Memoir of Mr. James Henry Leigh Hunt. Written by Himself” in Monthly Magazine NS 7 (April 1810) 243-48 Found 1: ¶ Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Mr. Keats’s Poems &c.” in The Examiner (1 June 1817) 345 Found 1: ¶ 2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “Letter from Z. to Mr Leigh Hunt, King of the Cockneys” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 3 (May 1818) 196-201 Found 1: ¶ 3 Sir Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie, 10 February 1822 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 3 Leigh Hunt to Mary Sabilla Novello, 26 March 1822 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Hodgson, Francis, 1781-1852, “Biography. Rev. Robert Bland” in Literary Gazette (23 April 1825) 725-26 Found 1: ¶ 9 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 1: ¶ 207 An Account of Christ’s Hospital. Found 2: ¶ 78 ¶ 79 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1807 Found 1: ¶ 62 Life of Byron: 1816 (II) Found 1: ¶ n1 Life of Byron: 1821 Found 2: ¶ 19 ¶ 4 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 1: ¶ 14 Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Moore's Life of Lord Byron” in Edinburgh Review 53 (June 1831) 544-572 Found 1: ¶ 40 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter I. 1753-1781 Found 1: ¶ 42 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I 1812-13 Found 1: ¶ 38 Chapter VIII 1814 Found 1: ¶ 7 Chapter VII 1822 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Family History Found 1: ¶ 1 Childhood Found 1: ¶ 23 Poets and Poetry Found 1: ¶ 11 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 71 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 12 Found 1: ¶ 29 Chapter 13 Found 1: ¶ 20 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter V Found 1: ¶ 2 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Leigh Hunt Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1796 Found 1: ¶ 172