Collected Works

Author's full output

The collected works of an author are their writings gathered into a comprehensive edition, typically published after the writer has died or achieved lasting reputation.

The phrase implies completeness—everything significant the person wrote: the collected works of Shakespeare, her collected works fill twelve volumes.

Sometimes shortened to simply collected: his collected poems.

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box set · canon · compendium · journal · omnibus · proceedings · repository · archive · bibliography · gallery · annals · corpus · memoirs · chronicle · masterpiece · dissertation · exhibition · catalog

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Opposites
completeness/scope

Collected Worksexcerpts

Selected passages from texts

anthology · selections · selected works · highlights · best of

compilation vs. singular output

Collected Worksone-off

Singular, unrepeated instance

monograph

published vs. unpublished status

Collected Worksunpublished works

Writings never formally released

lost works · juvenilia · apocrypha · unfinished works · ephemera

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