The Last Romantics
by Hough, Graham
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Gerald Duckworth & Co,1949. Hardback first edition. Good. No DW. Purple cloth binding slightly soiled and discoloured. Otherwise a firmly bound, tight copy. No annotations or inscriptions. NOT ex-library. xix,+ 284 pages including index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A study of late romanticism in literature and art beginning with Ruskin, following through Rossetti and the pre-Raphaelites, William Morris, Pater, Fin-De-Siecle, and ending with W.B. Yeats; The author studied Yeats while a prisoner of war in Malaya and Siam in 1942-1945, from which reading this study emerged; Hough was Professor of English at Cambridge University from 1966 to 1975. .
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- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1789
- Title
- The Last Romantics
- Author
- Hough, Graham
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Gerald Duckworth & Co,1949
- Keywords
- 1890s DECADENCE ROMANTICS W.B. YEATS ROSSETTI RUSKIN ART LITERARY CRITICISM ROMANTICISM HISTORY PRE-RAPHAELITES ENGLISH LITERATURE PATER WILLIAM MORRIS PUGIN GOTHIC REVIVALQSE
Terms of Sale
David Edward Hellawell
I will refund the cost if the book is returned within 7 days with details of where the description was faulty.
About the Seller
David Edward Hellawell
Biblio member since 2007
Bromsgrove, West Midlands
About David Edward Hellawell
Professor Emeritus now selling off the stock of a lifetime.
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