Oxford University Press. 1949. pp. xxiv, 614. 8vo. Blue cloth. Reprint. Text block reattached to casing retaining all original endpapers. Ted Hughes and his sister Olwyn's copy from the library of Frieda Hughes, Ted and Sylvia Plath's daughter. On the front free endpaper is Olwyn's ownership signature and in Ted's hand a Coleridge Fragment beginning 'Grant me a patron, gracious Heaven! which he notes is Note 293 in the Notebooks. Olwyn has made four notes and several markings in the text in ink. She studied English Literature at Queen Mary College, London and graduated in 1950. Ted, using biro, has made markings in the margins on the Content that match up with the poems he selected for his book - A Choice of Coleridge's Verse, published Faber and Faber 1996. He has also made a note at the top of The Ancient Mariner 'Complete & read to Wordsworth's 23 March, 1798' Loosely inserted is a folded sheet of paper listing on both sides, in Hughes hand, the poems marked on the Contents. In A Choice of Coleridge's Verse Hughes has written a long and detailed Preface and Introduction in which he says that 'While my remarks in this essay are based mainly on easily accesible material in Coleridge's Poems and Notebooks..' The Notebooks, Volumes 1 - 4 were available to him, but the Bollingen Poetical Works in 3 volumes edited by J C C Mays were not. They were published in 2001. So brother and sister used this book as their source for the Poetical Works of Coleridge but at different times.

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