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Student library info ▿The Student library info pertains to the period when Beckett was a student at Trinity College Dublin (1923-1927) and a lecturer at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and TCD (1928-1931). It explains when he is thought to have acquired and read the book in question, based on his inscription, as well as various external sources including the official TCD college calendars, his 'Dream' Notebook, and his letters.Read: by January 1924.
Beckett bought Somervell's Companion in 1924. He thus very likely read it in early January for the Hilary examination next to the Golden Treasury (book I).
Somervell, David: A Companion to Palgrave's Golden Treasury
London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1918 [1917]
Inscription: 'S. B. Beckett / Trinity College, Dublin / 1924'

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Editors: Dirk Van Hulle, Mark Nixon and Vincent Neyt. Student Library edited by Veronica Bãlã.

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