The Afterlife | Essays and Criticism
- Belief and Imagination in Collins's Poem
In this essay, Semansky considers ideas of belief and imagination in Collins’s poem.
- Collins as an Ironic, Postmodern Poet
In this essay, Pool discusses Collins as an ironic, postmodern poet.
- Billy Collins
In the following essay, Marshall positions Collins within a wide literary context of poets from Wallace Stevens to William Wordsworth, noting Collins’s penchant for the musicality of performance art and lyrical rumination.

