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December 2003 43 His Life, His Art, and His Influence (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1937), is still useful for the various strands of Greek and Latin classicism that Collins reworks in his odes. 10 Any reference to Collins’ poetry will be to the standard edition by Roger Lonsdale, ed., The Poems of Gray, Collins, Goldsmith (London: Longman, 1969). 11 For a detailed discussion of the ode, see Sandro Jung, William Collins and ‘The Poetical Character’. Originality, Original Genius and the Poems of William Collins (Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 2000) 63-71. See also, my study, The Inge nious William Collins: Description and Personification in Collins’ Odes (forthcom ing) , especially the chapter on the classical idea of simplicity. 12 For Collins’ possible metonymical identification of Simplicity with Fancy, see Sandro Jung, “Collins and the ‘New’ Lyric,” Ed. Sandro Jung, William Collins: Nero Perspectives [Special issue of Augustan Studies] (Chester: William Collins Society Publications, 2003). Collins might have been thinking of a deity that E. R. Curtius termed all-mother Nature. See Ernst Robert Curtius, Eurcrpaische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittelalter (Berne: Francke, 1948) 114-35. 13 John Langhorne, ed., The Poetical Works of Mr. William Collins until Mem oirs of the Author and Observations on
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