William Collins (poet)

William Collins
The sole portrait of William Collins, aged 14
The sole portrait of William Collins, aged 14
Born(1721-12-25)25 December 1721
Chichester, Sussex, England
Died12 June 1759(1759-06-12) (aged 37)
Chichester, Sussex, England
OccupationPoet
Blue Plaque on the wall of 21 East Street, Chichester PO19 1HP (a branch of the Halifax Bank in August 2022), commemorating William Collin's birth in an earlier building on the site and his death in the Cathedral Cloisters.
Blue Heritage Plaque marking William Collins' birthplace in 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 progression from the Augustan poetry of Alexander Pope's generation and towards the imaginative ideal of the Romantic era.