# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-collins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:01:58.802Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-collins"
name: "William Collins"
slug: "william-collins"
description: "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 progression from the Augustan poetry of Alexander Pope's generation and towards the imaginative ideal of the Romantic era."
tagline: "English poet, born 1721"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WilliamCollinsPoet.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1721-12-25"
deathDate: "1759-06-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.01
  momentum:             11.5
  historical:           17.35291733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump