Persian Eclogues : by Collins (q.v.) when 17, inspired by Pope’s Pastorals (q.v.).
... tury poetry and none of them quite succeeded. Besides this similarity in general aim, there are several particular resemblances. 1st in metre. They all avoided the heroic couplet. Collins' Persian Eclogues, the work of his youth, & a few of Gray's fragments are in this metre, but in their mature & accomplished work it is not represented. Akenside wrote either in blank verse or in lyrical metres ...
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