ABSTRACT
W.F.Collier was a prolific writer of history texts for schools. His popular History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical Sketches (1861; reprinted a number of times, and extended to include a section on American literature) showed that a warmer response to Donne was becoming orthodox (A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical Sketches (1861), 1891, p. 168).
