BYRON, George Gordon Noel.

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The Works. A finely bound association set, inscribed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge's nephew, John Taylor Coleridge, with an extract from his close friend John Keble's The Christian Year (1827). Keble's popular collection adapted Romantic sensibilities to Anglican devotional poetry; the verses chosen here contrast dramatic passion with quiet inward renewal.The judge John Taylor Coleridge (1790–1876) met Keble (1792–1866) as an undergraduate at Oxford and later published a memoir of his old friend (1869). He edited the Quarterly Review in 1824, and in the present set has annotated verses 85–87 of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, recording Thomas Hardy's opinion that the stanzas on Lake Geneva were "unsurpassed in descriptive poetry".The inscribed quotation is dated 1852, while Coleridge's ownership inscriptions are dated 1830. The volumes bear the bookplates of his grandson, Bernard Coleridge.

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