"Conversation> There is something for everyone - romances, relationships, science fiction, speculation, controversy, frivolity, religion, philosophy, even nonsense, and a few not easily classified. Almost all will leave you with something to ponder. All are destined to entertain." - back cover synopsis
There is more than one William Collins in the Goodreads catalog. This entry is for William [2^] Collins.
William Collins 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 turn away from the Augustan poetry of Alexander Pope's generation and towards the Romantic era which would soon follow.