La recepción de la obra de William Collins: “Ode to Evening”

Abstract

Trabajo que se ocupa de uno de los poetas más relevantes del siglo XVIII en Inglaterra, William Collins, que ha estado durante muchos años considerado como un poeta menor, aunque ya él Doctor Jonson en su Lives of the English Poets llamara la atención sobre él (“He wrote now and then odes and other poems, and did something, however little”), del que posteriormente se ha reconocido la importancia de sus Odas, y en concreto la “Ode to Evening”, considerada como una de las mejores odas de la poesía inglesa.

The present article focuses on one of the most relevant 18th century English poets, William Collins. Although he had been considered a minor poet for a long time, Doctor Johnson drew his contemporaries‟ attention to him in his Lives of the English Poets (“He wrote now and then odes and other poems, and did something, however little”). Later, he has been later recognised for his odes, especially the “Ode to Evening”, now considered one of the best English odes.