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Barbara Everett

Barbara Everett’s books include Young Hamlet and Poets in Their Time: Essays on English Poetry from Donne to Larkin.

From the London Review dated 7 August 2003

Alphabeted

  • Coleridge’s Notebooks: A Selection edited by Seamus Perry
  • The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Vol. XVI: Poetical Works I: Poems (Reading Text) edited by J.C.C. Mays
  • The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Vol. XVI: Poetical Works II: Poems (Variorum Text) edited by J.C.C. Mays
  • The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Vol. XVI: Poetical Works III: Plays edited by J.C.C. Mays

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Selected bibliography

  • Young Hamlet: Essays on Shakespeare’s Tragedies (1989)
  • Poets in Their Time: Essays on English Poetry from Donne to Larkin (1986)
  • Donne, a London Poet (1972)
  • Auden (1964)

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