THE POEMS OF ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH

Second edition, revised and expanded from the 1951 first edition. Original navy blue cloth lettered with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that has a short closed tear at the top of the rear panel an a touch of toning to the spine. The front flap has been clipped by the publisher (and priced £55 on a label to the lower panel).

Clough's poems, described by Robert Lowell as "the truest expression in verse of the moral and intellectual tendencies, the doubt and struggle towards settled convictions, of the period in which he lived", have taken time to achieve the attention they deserve. Until the publication of the first edition of 'The Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough' in 1951, the most substantial collection of his work had been prepared by the poet's wife, with the assistance of John Addington Symonds, and published in 1869, eight years after Clough's death at the age of forty-two. This second edition reassesses every aspect of the 1951 volume, its selections, texts, and ordering, and incorporates significant new material, including all of Clough's juvenilia and an expanded selection of his translations. More than thirty previously uncollected poems have been added.