William Collins' Personification Beautifully Used as a State of Mind
Collins's Ode to Eveninng (1746), is one of the finest of 18 th century Nature-poems beginning with an invocation to the goddess Eve (evening), and is a soft and intensely appealing picture of twilight and dusk. The spirit of the evening, Eve, is personofied as a Nymph, ‘a maid composed’, who is... Sign in to see full entry.