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Family history and early childhood, 1721-1733
Scholar at Winchester College, 1734-1740
Commoner at Oxford, 1740-1743
Literary adventurer : searching for a patron, 1744
London life, war, and family finances, 1744-1745
Collins and Scotland : war, politics, and poetry, 1746
"Many projects in his head and very little money in his pocket" : publication of the Odes and other literary projects, 1747-1748
"Cold turf hides the buried friend" : personal losses and creating a poetic legacy, 1748-1749
Last lucid days and final literary projects, 1749-1751
Illness, confinement, and death : Chichester, 1752-1759.
Scholar at Winchester College, 1734-1740
Commoner at Oxford, 1740-1743
Literary adventurer : searching for a patron, 1744
London life, war, and family finances, 1744-1745
Collins and Scotland : war, politics, and poetry, 1746
"Many projects in his head and very little money in his pocket" : publication of the Odes and other literary projects, 1747-1748
"Cold turf hides the buried friend" : personal losses and creating a poetic legacy, 1748-1749
Last lucid days and final literary projects, 1749-1751
Illness, confinement, and death : Chichester, 1752-1759.