title: The Oxford Book of Dreams (Oxford Books of Prose)
author: Stephen Brook
description: `Review from previous edition A rich fabric of dreaming ... from Latin poets to Louis MacNiece and Yeats ... A truly remarkable assembly'<br />Elizabeth Jennings, Spectator<br /><br />`a splendid collection ... Stephen Brook could hardly have done the job better'<br />Rosemary Dinnage, TLS<br /><br />`an ideal companion for the bedside'<br />Time<br /><br />`Anthologies which transcend themselves and can stand as organic books making serious statements about life [are] very rare, but Stephen Brook's Oxford Book of Dreams is of their number.'<br />Paul Binding, New Statesman
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  For E.
   
  It’s always nice to dream with you.
  
   
  What if you slept
  And what if
  In your sleep
  You dreamed
  And what if
  In your dream
  You went to heaven
  And there plucked a strange and beautiful ﬂower
  And what if
  When you awoke
  You had that ﬂower in your hand
  Ah, what then?
  SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
  
   
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