Collins, V. H. (1930)
A Book of Narrative Verse

Reset 1954
Reprinted 1959
Oxford University Press.

This book is likely to be the one mentioned in the English Literature terminal test paper in Form 3 (Summer 1960). It contains all the narrative poems referred to in the paper. Here are the answers to question 1(a) (all open in a new window):

(i) John Keats The Eve of St Agnes

(ii) Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

(iii) Alfred Lord Tennyson Morte d’Arthur

(iv) Rudyard Kipling Tomlinson

You wouldn’t believe how long these poems are! Click on the titles to read them online.

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Contents page 1

Contents pages 2 and 3