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A scholarly edition of works by William Collins. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
Excerpt from The Poetical Works of William Collins: Edited, With Memoir All the remaining Odes in the edition of 1746, (dated are printed from that volume; and these and all the other poems (with one exception) have been carefully collated with the original autho rities. The exception referred to is the Epistle to Sir Thomas Hanmer, of which the editor has not been so fortunate as to find a copy of the author's edition, and has, therefore, trusted to the version in the careful and beautiful edition of Collins published by Mr. Dyce. The editor desires to express here his acknow ledgment of the kind assistance which he has re ceived, in collecting materials for his short Memoir, from the Provo...
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Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is a major British Victorian novelist, dramatist, short story writer, and journalist. He is best known today as the author of ^IThe Moonstone,^R which T.S. Eliot called the first and greatest English detective novel. He has been the subject of two recent biographies, and a revival of interest in his works is now under way. In particular, there is growing concern with his intellectual development, as witnessed by the 1999 publication of his collected letters. This reconstruction of his library offers a thorough analysis of the books he owned and his response to them and thus illuminates Collins as a reader and writer. The book begins with a narrative discussion of t...