Good evening.
Assuming that collection is a little too mundane for your purposes, how do you feel about florilegium?
If you don't care for "anthology" (and why not?), how about "digest"?
Ron Draney said:
Assuming that collection is a little too mundane for your purposes, how do you feel about florilegium?
What a great word! A new one for me. Thanks.
Thank you for your help. I feel that somehow there must be a word that precisely describes a collection of reprinted non-fiction, poems and excerpts from novels. Florilegium is elegant indeed but it might not be understandable. And I want to be understood.
Anthology denotes, in my mind, literature with a large L; in other words a collection of fiction or poetry. Strictly speaking, this collection is not that.
Digest appeals to me even though I am not certain that is the word. This collection of pieces about women's health is a "condensed but comprehensive account of a body of information" (Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th ed.).
I continue to look...
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