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THE RAVEN AND OTHER SELECTED POEMS
Edgar Allan Poe
William Collins
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Classic Literature: Words and Phrases adapted from Collins English Dictionary
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Source ISBN: 9780008180515
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Version: 2016-09-23
CONTENTS
Copyright
History of William Collins
Life & Times
The Raven
The Raven
Selected Poems 1827–1849
A Dream
A Dream within a Dream
Dreams
Evening Star
“In Youth I Have Known One” (Stanzas)
Song
Spirits of the Dead
Tamerlane
“The Happiest Day, the Happiest Hour”
The Lake
Al Aaraaf
Alone
Elizabeth
Fairy-Land
Romance
Sonnet—To Science
To– – (“I heed not that my earthly lot”)
To– – (“The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see”)
To the River
A Pæan
Israfel
Lenore
The City in the Sea
The Sleeper
The Valley of Unrest
To Helen (“Helen, thy beauty is to me”)
Serenade
The Coliseum
To One in Paradise
Hymn
To F— — (“Beloved! amid the earnest woes”)
To Frances S. Osgood
Bridal Ballad
Sonnet—To Zante
The Haunted Palace
Sonnet—Silence
The Conqueror Worm
Dream-Land
Epigram for Wall Street
Eulalie—A Song
A Valentine
To Marie Louise Shew (“Of all who hail thy presence as the morning”)
Ulalume—A Ballad
An Enigma
To Marie Louise Shew (“Not long ago, the writer of these lines”)
To Helen (“I saw thee once—once only— years ago”)
Annabel Lee
Eldorado
For Annie
The Bells
To My Mother
Classic Literature: Words and Phrases
About the Publisher
In 1819, millworker William Collins from Glasgow, Scotland, set up a company for printing and publishing pamphlets, sermons, hymn books and prayer books. That company was Collins and was to mark the birth of HarperCollins Publishers as we know it today. The long tradition of Collins dictionary publishing can be traced back to the first dictionary William published in 1824, Greek and English Lexicon. Indeed, from 1840 onwards, he began to produce illustrated dictionaries and even obtained a licence to print and publish the Bible.
Soon after, William published the first Collins novel, Ready Reckoner; however, it was the time of the Long Depression, where harvests were poor, prices were high, potato crops had failed and violence was erupting in Europe. As a result, many factories across the country were forced to close down and William chose to retire in 1846, partly due to the hardships he was facing.
Aged 30, William’s son, William II, took over the business. A keen humanitarian with a warm heart and a generous spirit, William II was truly “Victorian” in his outlook. He introduced new, up-to-date steam presses and published affordable editions of Shakespeare’s works and The Pilgrim’s Progress, making them available to the masses for the first time. A new demand for educational books meant that success came with the publication of travel books, scientific books, encyclopedias and dictionaries. This demand to be educated led to the later publication of atlases, and Collins also held the monopoly on scripture writing at the time.
In the 1860s Collins began to expand and diversify and the idea of “books