Thomson and Collins

Published: Nov. 11, 2010, 5:37 a.m.

b"Proto-Romanticism: Thomson compared to Wordsworth.\\xa0 The idea of landscape in Thomson; the adverting mind in Wordsworth, which you don't quite begin to find in Thomson, who wishes a Newtonian view from nowhere (hence the verses in memory of Newton).\\xa0 Collins is far more about the experience of the experience of being a poet.\\xa0 The Ode to Fear."