Copyright

      William Collins

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      This eBook published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2016

      Life & Times section © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

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      Classic Literature: Words and Phrases adapted from Collins English Dictionary

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      Cover illustration: I Shot the Albatross, Gustave Doré, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1876 edition, duncan1890/iStock

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      Source ISBN: 9780008167561

      Ebook Edition © September 2016 ISBN: 9780008167578

      Version: 2016-09-28

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

History of William Collins

Life & Times

Part 1: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel and Kubla Khan

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Christabel

       Kubla Khan

       Part 2: Conversation Poems

       The Eolian Harp

       Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement

       This Lime-tree Bower My Prison

       Frost at Midnight

       Fears in Solitude

       The Nightingale

       Dejection: An Ode

       To William Wordsworth

       Part 3: Other Poems 1787–1833

       Easter Holidays

       Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon

       To the Muse

       To the Evening Star

       To Disappointment

       The Rose

       The Hour When We Shall Meet Again

       The Raven

       A Christmas Carol

       Inscription for a Seat by the Road Side Half-way Up a Steep Hill Facing South

       Ode to Tranquillity

       An Ode to the Rain

       The Pains of Sleep

       Farewell to Love

       The Visionary Hope

       God’s Omnipresence: A Hymn

       To Nature

       Youth and Age

       Work without Hope

       Duty Surviving Self-Love

       Epitaph

       Classic Literature: Words and Phrases

       About the Publisher