The late Professor Clough is well known as a graceful, tender poet, and as the scholarly translator of Plutarch. The letters possess high interest, not biographical only, but literary—discussing, as they do, the most important questions of the time, always in a genial spirit. The “Remains” include papers on “Retrenchment at Oxford;” on Professor F.W. Newmarfs book “The Soul;” on Wordsworth; on the Formation of Classical English; on some Modern Poems (Matthew Arnold and the late Alexander Smith), &c. &c.
THE POEMS OF ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH, sometime Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. With a Memoir by F.T. Palgrave. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 6s_._
"From the higher mind of cultivated, all-questioning, but still conservative England, in this our puzzled generation, we do not know of any utterance in literature so characteristic as the poems of Arthur Hugh Clough."—Fraser’s Magazine.
Dante -----
DANTE’S COMEDY, THE HELL. Translated by W.M. Rossetti. Fcap. 8vo. cloth. 5_s_.
“The aim of this translation of Dante may be summed up in one word—Literality.... To follow Dante sentence for sentence, line for line, word for word—neither more nor less—has been my strenuous endeavour.” —Author’s Preface.
De Vere -------
THE INFANT BRIDAL, and other Poems. By Aubrey De Vere. Fcap. 8vo. 7_s_ 6_d_.
“Mr. De Vere has taken his place among the poets of the day. Pure and tender feeling, and that polished restraint of style which is called classical, are the charms of the volume.”—Spectator.
Doyle (Sir F.H.). -----------------
—Works by Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford:—
THE RETURN OF THE GUARDS, AND OTHER POEMS. Fcap. 8vo. 7_s_.
“Good wine needs no bush, nor good verse a preface; and Sir Francis Doyle’s verses run bright and clear, and smack of a classic vintage.... His chief characteristic, as it is his greatest charm, is the simple manliness which gives force to all he writes. It is a characteristic in these days rare enough.”—Examiner.
LECTURES ON POETRY, delivered before the University of Oxford in 1868. Extra crown 8vo. 3_s_. 6_d_.
THREE LECTURES:—(1) Inaugural; (2) Provincial Poetry; (3) Dr. Newman’s “Dream of Gerontius.”
“Full of thoughtful discrimination and fine insight: the lecture on ‘Provincial Poetry’ seems to us singularly true, eloquent, and instructive.”—Spectator.
Evans -----
BROTHER FABIAN’S MANUSCRIPT, AND OTHER POEMS. By Sebastian Evans. Fcap. 8vo. cloth. 6_s_.
“In this volume we have full assurance that he has ’the vision and the faculty divine.’... Clever and full of kindly humour.”—Globe.
Furnivall. ----------
—Le Morte D’Arthur. Edited from the Harleian M.S. 2252, in the British Museum. By F.J. Furnivall, M.A. With Essay by the late Herbert Coleridge. Fcap. 8vo. 7_s_. 6_d_.