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William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who served as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. [1] He was a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, retiring in 2016.
When Collins first published the paradelle, it was with the footnote "The paradelle is one of the more demanding French fixed forms, first appearing in the langue d'oc love poetry of the eleventh century. It is a poem of four six-line stanzas in which the first and second lines, as well as the third and fourth lines of the first three stanzas ...
Picnic, Lightning is a collection of poetry by Billy Collins, published in 1998.His fourth book of poetry, it was his first to be widely published (selling over 50,000 copies) [1] and his last before election as United States Poet Laureate.
The Art of Drowning is a book of poetry by the American Poet Laureate Billy Collins, first published in 1995. John Updike described the collection as "Lovely poems—lovely in a way almost nobody's since [Theodore] Roethke's are. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and ...
William Collins (tennis), British tennis player from the 1920s and 30s, see 1930 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles; William Collins (canoeist) (1932–1993), Canadian canoer who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics; Bill Collins (athlete) (born 1950), American sprinter; Billy Collins Jr. (1961–1984), American professional boxer
The poem "Moon" by Billy Collins. The travel narrative A Summer in Gascony (2008) by Martin Calder. The Flying Dutchman character quotes the last 12 lines as he looks towards the sea in the 1951 movie Pandora and the Flying Dutchman. Kevin Kline's character, Cal Gold, in the film 2001 The Anniversary Party recites part of "Dover Beach" as a toast.
“Sussudio,” Phil Collins In the grand tradition of Candyman and Bloody Mary , if you say “Sussudio” three times, we’re pretty sure ’80s Phil Collins will appear to haunt your waking ...
Collins' only other completed poem afterwards was the "Ode written on the death of Mr Thomson" (1749), but his unfinished works suggest that he was moving away from the contrived abstraction of the Odes and seeking inspiration in an idealised time uncorrupted by the modern age. Collins had showed the Wartons an "Ode on the Popular Superstitions ...